Music, Language, and Cognition: And Other Essays in the Aesthetics of Music
- Author: Kivy, Peter
Kivy maintains a leading position in his field with this third book of essays.... Kivy's writing is laced with whimsy - even humour- making his arguments more approachable.... Highly recommended — More…
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Contents
- Preface
- Part I: History
- 1 Mainwaring's Handel: Its Relation to British Aesthetics
- 2 Herbert Spencer and a Musical Dispute
- Part II: Opera and Film
- 3 Handel's Operas: The Form of Feeling and the Problem of Appreciation
- 4 Anti-Semitism in Meistersinger
- 5 Speech, Song, and the Transparency of Medium: On Operatic Metaphysics
- 6 Music in the Movies: A Philosophical Inquiry
- Part III: Performance
- 7 On the Historically Informed Performance
- 8 Ars perfecta: Toward Perfection in Musical Performance?
- Part IV: Interpretation
- 9 Another Go at the Meaning of Music: Koopman, Davies, and the Meanings of 'Meaning'
- 10 Another Go at Musical Profundity: Stephen Davies and the Game of Chess
- 11 From Ideology to Music: Leonard Meyer's Theory of Style Change
- 12 Sibley's Last Paper
- 13 In Defense of Musical Representation: Music, Representation, and the Hybrid Arts
- 14 Music, Language, and Cognition: Which Doesn't Belong?
- Bibliography
- Index
