Musical Concerns: Essays in Philosophy of Music
- Author: Levinson, Jerrold
This volume is a handsome collection of Jerrold Levinson's latest concerns about philosophy and music —
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Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Philosophy and Music
- 2 The Aesthetic Appreciation of Music
- 3 Concatenationism, Architectonicism, and the Appreciation of Music
- 4 Indication, Abstraction, and Individuation
- 5 Musical Beauty
- 6 Values of Music
- 7 Shame in General and Shame in Music
- 8 Jazz Vocal Interpretation: A Philosophical Analysis
- 9 Popular Song as Moral Microcosm: Life Lessons from Jazz Standards
- 10 The Expressive Specificity of Jazz
- 11 Instrumentation and Improvisation
- 12 with Philip Alperson: What Is a Temporal Art?
- Index