Musical Understandings presents an engaging collection of essays on the philosophy of music, written by Stephen Davies-one of the most distinguished philosophers in the field. He explores a range of topics in the philosophy of music, including how music expresses emotion and what is distinctive to the listener's response to this expressiveness; the modes of perception and understanding that can be expected of skilled listeners, performers, analysts, andcomposers and the various manners in which these understandings can be manifest; the manner in which musical works exist and their relation to their instances or performances; and musical profundity.
As well as reviewing the work of philosophers of music, a number of the chapters both draw on and criticallyreflect on current work by psychologists concerning music. The collection includes new material, a number of adapted articles which allow for a more comprehensive, unified treatment of the issues at stake, and work published in English for the first time.
| ISBN: | 9780191619458 |
| Publication date: | 25th August 2011 |
| Author: | Davies, Stephen |
| Publisher: | OUP Oxford |
| Format: | Ebook |
Musical Understandings presents an engaging collection of essays on the philosophy of music, written by Stephen Davies-one of the most distinguished philosophers in the field. He explores a range of topics in the philosophy of music, including how music expresses emotion and what is distinctive to the listener's response to this expressiveness; the modes of perception and understanding that can be expected of skilled listeners, performers, analysts, andcomposers and the various manners in which these understandings can be manifest; the manner in which musical works exist and their relation to their instances or performances; and musical profundity.
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Musical Understandings was written by Davies, Stephen and published by OUP Oxford
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