Philosophers on Music
Experience, Meaning, and Work
- Editor: Stock, Kathleen
Philosophers on Music
Experience, Meaning, and Work
- Editor: Stock, Kathleen
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Philosophers on Music presents significant new contributions to central issues in the philosophy of music, written by leading philosophers working in the analytic tradition. Aestheticians, musicologists, music practitioners, and those interested in philosophy generally will find the papers in this volume rewarding reading.
Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of musical examples
- Kathleen Stock: Introduction
- Section 1: Musical Ontology
- 1 Julian Dodd: Sounds, instruments and works of music
- 2 Michael Morris: Doing Justice to Musical Works
- 3 Stephen Davies: Versions of musical works and literary translations
- Section 2: Musical Expression
- 4 Derek Matravers: Expression in Music
- 5 Paul Boghossian: Explaining Musical Experience
- 6 Aaron Ridley: Persona Sometimes Grata: on the appreciation of expressive music
- Section 3: Musical Meaning
- 7 Jenefer Robinson: Can Music Function as a Metaphor of Emotional Life?
- 8 Eddy Zemach and Tamara Balter: The Structure of Irony and how it Functions in Music
- Section 4: New Issues
- 9 Gordon Graham: Music and Electro-sonic Art
- 10 Roger Scruton: Thoughts on Rhythm
- Index of subjects
