What makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rewarding? In addressing these questions, Peter Kivy continues his highly regarded exploration of the philosophy of musical aesthetics. He considers here what he believes to be the most difficult subject of all--"just plain music; music unaccompanied by text, title, subject, program, or plot; in other words, music alone."
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In the Essai sur l'origine des langues (1764), Jean-Jacques Rousseau reports on an eighteenth-century curiosity that has, from time to time, fascinated musicians and inventors. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Charlie, Beethoven's Fifth, New York, The Corded Shell, Brahms's First Symphony, Ave Maria, Compendium of Music, Peter Kivy, Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Carnegie Hall, Leonard Meyer, Antony Flew, Aunt Bella, Eduard Hanslick, Margaret's Way, New Haven, Roger Scruton, Rudolph Reti, Vivaldi's Seasons New!
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In the Essai sur l'origine des langues (1764), Jean-Jacques Rousseau reports on an eighteenth-century curiosity that has, from time to time, fascinated musicians and inventors. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Charlie, Beethoven's Fifth, New York, The Corded Shell, Brahms's First Symphony, Ave Maria, Compendium of Music, Peter Kivy, Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Carnegie Hall, Leonard Meyer, Antony Flew, Aunt Bella, Eduard Hanslick, Margaret's Way, New Haven, Roger Scruton, Rudolph Reti, Vivaldi's Seasons New!
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- The Corded Shell: Reflections on Musical Expression (Princeton Essays on the Arts) by Peter Kivy on 6 pages
- Sound and Semblance: Reflections on Musical Representation by Peter Kivy on 4 pages
- The Thematic Process in Music by Rudolph Richard Reti on page 130, page 132, and Back Matter
- Emotion and Meaning in Music (Phoenix Books) by Leonard B. Meyer on page 63, page 155, and Back Matter
- The Two Cultures (Canto) by C. P. Snow on page 40, and Back Matter
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- New Essays on Musical Understanding by Peter Kivy on 4 pages
- Music Matters: A New Philosophy of Music Education by David J. Elliott on page 157, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic Tradition: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) by Peter Lamarque on page 446, and page 463
- Of Mind and Music by Laird Addis on page 17, and Back Matter
- Music And Gesture by Anthony Gritten on page 22, and page 122
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