Musical Understandings and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Music
Stephen Davies
Abstract
The essays in this book cover a spread of topics in the philosophy of music: 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, and composers 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 critically ... More
Keywords: philosophy of music, psychology, musical meaning, musical works, musical profundity, expressiveness
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199608775 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199608775.001.0001 |
