New Essays on Musical Understanding
- Author: Kivy, Peter
Lives up to Kivy's reputation as a leading philosopher of music ... there are many interesting passages and the book is, as ever, written in a pleasant style. This is a book that cannot fail... — More…
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Contents
- I Some History (and its Aftermath)
- 1 Note-for-Note: Work, Performance, and Early Notation
- 2 Music, Will, and Representation
- 3 On Hanslick's Inconsistency
- 4 Making the Codes and Breaking the Codes: Two Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Music
- II Music and the Emotions (Yet Again)
- 5 Auditor's Emotions: Contention, Concession, Compromise
- 6 Experiencing the Musical Emotions
- 7 The Arousal Theory of Musical Expression: Rethinking the Unthinkable
- III More About Music
- 8 Absolute Music and the New Musicology
- 9 Movements and 'Movements'
- 10 Music in Memory and Music in the Moment
- 11 How to Forge a Musical Work
- Bibliography, Index