In order to promote new ways of thinking about musical meaning, this volume brings together scholars in music theory, musicology, and the philosophy of music, disciplines generally treated as separate and distinct. This interdisciplinary collaboration, while respecting differences in perspective, identifies and elaborates shared concerns.This volume focuses on the many and various kinds of meaning in music. Do musical meanings exist exclusively in internal, formal musical relations or might they also be found in the relationship between music and other areas of experience, such as action, emotion, ideas, and values? Also discussed is the vexed question why people listen to and apparently enjoy music which expresses unpleasant emotions, such as melancholy or despair. Among the particular pieces the writers discuss are Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, and Schubert's last sonata. More broadly, they consider the relation of musical meaning and interpretation to language, storytelling, drama, imagination, metaphor, and emotion.
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"This collection can be enthusiastically recommended to philosophers who want to hear some of the latest news from musicology."-British Journal of Aesthetics
"This excellent collection . . . is a humanistically rich, argumentatively subtle, and music-analytically accomplished volume, engendering a fuller awareness of the conceptual legacy of the Wagner-Hanslick debate that would place formal analysis in polemical opposition to narrative and emotive content, and taking a great stride towards overcoming that pernicious dichotomy. The book well deserves an enthusiastic recommendation to everyone desiring a fuller comprehension of the complexities of musical experience."-Garry L. Hagberg, Bard College, Philosophy in Review. February-December, 1999.
"Reading this book is a satisfying experience since it gives one the impression that progress is being made in the philosophy of music. . . . Scholars working in the philosophy of music will want to have a copy for ease of reference. . . . Libraries supporting research on aesthetics will need a copy."-James O. Young, University on Victoria, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
"This excellent collection . . . is a humanistically rich, argumentatively subtle, and music-analytically accomplished volume, engendering a fuller awareness of the conceptual legacy of the Wagner-Hanslick debate that would place formal analysis in polemical opposition to narrative and emotive content, and taking a great stride towards overcoming that pernicious dichotomy. The book well deserves an enthusiastic recommendation to everyone desiring a fuller comprehension of the complexities of musical experience."-Garry L. Hagberg, Bard College, Philosophy in Review. February-December, 1999.
"Reading this book is a satisfying experience since it gives one the impression that progress is being made in the philosophy of music. . . . Scholars working in the philosophy of music will want to have a copy for ease of reference. . . . Libraries supporting research on aesthetics will need a copy."-James O. Young, University on Victoria, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
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In 1854 Eduard Hanslick, who was later to become Professor of Music at the University of Vienna and the preeminent music theorist of the preeminent musical city in Europe, published a small volume called Vom Musikalisch-Schonen (On the Musically Beautiful). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
musical ineffability, focal passage, trill returns, musical agency, music representational, musical persona, narrative curve, musical attributes, musical agents, emotive description, second outburst, plot archetype, expressive structure, music signifies, last sonata, fictional truths, musical meaning, expressive interpretation, negative emotional response, expressive music, musical aesthetics, horn call Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Peter Kivy, Anthony Newcomb, Cornell University Press, Ninth Symphony, Oxford University Press, Shostakovich's Tenth, Eduard Hanslick, Jerrold Levinson, University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, Kendall Walton, The Composer's Voice, The Corded Shell, Fred Everett Maus, Harvard University Press, Jenefer Robinson, Nelson Goodman, Stephen Davies, Temple University Press, Joseph Kerman, Musical Elaborations, Richard Wollheim, Leo Treitler, Princeton University Press New!
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In 1854 Eduard Hanslick, who was later to become Professor of Music at the University of Vienna and the preeminent music theorist of the preeminent musical city in Europe, published a small volume called Vom Musikalisch-Schonen (On the Musically Beautiful). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
musical ineffability, focal passage, trill returns, musical agency, music representational, musical persona, narrative curve, musical attributes, musical agents, emotive description, second outburst, plot archetype, expressive structure, music signifies, last sonata, fictional truths, musical meaning, expressive interpretation, negative emotional response, expressive music, musical aesthetics, horn call Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Peter Kivy, Anthony Newcomb, Cornell University Press, Ninth Symphony, Oxford University Press, Shostakovich's Tenth, Eduard Hanslick, Jerrold Levinson, University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, Kendall Walton, The Composer's Voice, The Corded Shell, Fred Everett Maus, Harvard University Press, Jenefer Robinson, Nelson Goodman, Stephen Davies, Temple University Press, Joseph Kerman, Musical Elaborations, Richard Wollheim, Leo Treitler, Princeton University Press New!
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- The Music of Our Lives by Kathleen M. Higgins on 7 pages
- Sound Sentiment: An Essay on the Musical Emotions, including the complete text of The Corded Shell (The Arts And Their Philosophie) by Peter Kivy on 6 pages
- Musical Elaborations by Edward W. Said on 6 pages
- Languages of Art by Nelson Goodman on 5 pages
- Musical Meaning and Expression by Stephen Davies on 5 pages
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