Musical Understandings: and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Music
- Author: Davies, Stephen
a diverse and stimulating collection of essays —
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Contents
- 1 Artistic Expression and the Hard Case of Pure Music
- 2 Music and Metaphor
- 3 Cross-cultural Musical Expressiveness: Theory and the Empirical Program
- 4 Emotional Contagion from Music to Listener
- 5 Once Again, This Time with Feeling
- 6 Musical Meaning in a Broader Perspective
- 7 Musical Understandings
- 8 The Experience of Music
- 9 Cosi's Canon Quartet
- 10 Perceiving Melodies
- 11 Musical Colors and Timbral Sonicism
- 12 Versions of Musical Works and Literary Translations
- 13 Profundity in Instrumental Music