Sounding Off: Eleven Essays in the Philosophy of Music

ISBN: 9780199697526 (0199697523)
Edition Type: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Pages: 312
Date Published: 28th Jun 2012

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PREFACE
PART I: GENIUS
1 MOZART'S SKULL
2 THE CASE OF THE PURLOINED PARTITUR
PART II: AUTHENTICITIES
3 A TALE OF TWO AUTHENTICITIES
4 ANCIENT AUTHENTICITIES
5 OPERATIC AUTHENTICITY
PART III: MEANING AND REPRESENTATION
6 MESSIAH'S MESSAGE
7 IS NOTHING SACRED?
8 SOUND IN SOUND
9 MUSIC, SCIENCE, AND SEMANTICS
PART IV: MUSIC ALONE
10 AUTHORIAL INTENTION AND THE PURE MUSICAL PARAMETERS
11 LEONARD MEYER'S SONATA
APPENDICES: SOME CRITICAL RESPONSES
APPENDIX 1
APPENDIX 2
BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Sounding Off brings together a selection of essays on philosophy of music written by Peter Kivy--the leading expert on the subject. The essays fall into four groups, corresponding to Kivy's major interests. Part I contains two essays on the nature of musical genius. In Part II, three essays take up the subject of authenticity in performance, and explore what Kivy terms 'the authenticity of interpretation'. Part III contains four essays concerning the much discussed issues of musical representation and musical meaning. Finally, Part IV consists of three essays on the 'pure musical parameters': these are essays on 'music alone' or 'absolute music'--music as the pure, formal structure of (sometimes) expressive sound. Eight of the eleven essays presented here are previously unpublished, and the book includes two appendices which provide Kivy's responses to criticism.

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