The Interpretation of Music: Philosophical Essays [Paperback]

Michael Krausz (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 28, 1995

This volume is concerned with the philosophical presuppositions of musical interpretation. It addresses such interrelated questions as the nature of musical interpretation in relation to works or music, whether works of music are fully embodied in scores, how strictly all markings of a score should be respected, what pertinence historical research has for musical interpretation, and how decisive the known or reconstructed intentions of a composer should be. The contributors investigate the aesthetic, cultural and historical aspects of musical interpretation, and their relation to interpretation in other human practices. In addition, they investigate such fundamental distinctions as those between musical and non-musical phenomena, and between musical and linguistic meaning.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Accessible musings by some of the most sophisticated American aestheticians of music."--Philadelphia Inquirer

"The philosophy of music aims to intersect our natural reflections on musical experience and practice with the general preoccupations of philosophy, and so to distil universal aspects of music. When this is done well, the philosophy of music shares and extraphilosophical value of good music criticism: it enhances our sense of the contours of musical experience and pays homage to the intensely particular character of musical works. A number of the papers in Michael Krausz's collection have this virtue."--Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

Michael Krausz, Milton C. Nahm Professor of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 28, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 019823550X
• ISBN-13: 978-0198235507
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,674,135 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Krausz is Milton C. Nahm Professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of Rightness and Reasons: Interpretation in Cultural Practices, Varieties of Relativism (with Rom Harré), Limits of Rightness, Interpretation and Transformation: Explorations in Art and the Self, and Dialogues on Relativism, Absolutism and Beyond: Four Days in India. Krausz is also contributing editor or co-editor of eleven volumes on relativism, rationality, interpretation, cultural identity, creativity, and related themes. He has taught at the University of Toronto, Georgetown University, Oxford University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, American University in Cairo, University of Nairobi, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, and University of Ulm. See also the festschrift: Interpretation and Its Objects: Studies in the Philosophy of Michael Krausz."

As a visual artist, Michael Krausz has had thirty-three solo and duo exhibitions in galleries in the U.S., U.K., and India. As a musician, Krausz is the founding Artistic Director and Conductor of the Great Hall Chamber Orchestra, comprised of forty young professional musicians, collaborating as soloists with principal players of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Krausz also teaches Aesthetics at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.