Cambridge University Press, 2007. — xiv, 428 p. — (Modern European Philosophy). — ISBN13: 978-0-511-35443-4. Modern philosophers generally assume that music is a problem to which philosophy ought to offer an answer. Andrew Bowie's Music, Philosophy, and Modernity suggests, in contrast, that music might offer ways of responding to some central questions in modern philosophy....
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 292 p. Representing Stephen Davies's best shorter writings, these essays outline developments within the philosophy of music over the last two decades, and summarize the state of play at the beginning of a new century. Including two new and previously unpublished pieces, they address both perennial questions and contemporary controversies, such...
Rodopi, 2007. — 122 p. The continuum of music-what is it, what does it do, how does it do it-has taxed countless philosophers over recorded time, and even the verb for what it does (express? arouse? evoke? symbolize? embody?) meets with no universal agreement. Not always is music admired: in the Book of Ezekiel, the prophet likens the skilled musician to an ineffectual...
Basel, Switzerland: MDPI AG. 2015. — 208 p. — ISBN/ASIN: 3038421022; ISBN-13: 9783038421023. Music in its various modes is a virtually ubiquitous companion to religious and spiritual practices. The apparently intangible, insubstantial nature of sound is one of the reasons why music has so effectively symbolized the mysterious and wholly other since the dawn of creation. Foley...
Routledge, 1998. — 172 p. Most music we hear comes to us via a recording medium on which sound has been stored. Such remoteness of music heard from music made has become so commonplace it is rarely considered. Musical Performance: A Philosophical Study considers the implications of this separation for live musical performance and music-making. Rather than examining the...
Leipzig: Rudolph Weige, 1854. — 152 S. Unwissenschaftlicher Standpunkt der bisherigen musikalischen Aesthetik. Die Gefühle sind nicht Zweck der Musik. Die Gefühle sind nicht Inhalt der Musik. Das Musikalisch-Schöne. Analyze des subjectiven Eindrucks der Musik. Das ästhetische Aufnehmen der Musik gegenüber dem pathologischen. Die Beziehungen der Tonkunst zur Natur. Die Begriffe...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 366 p. ISBN13: 978-0-511-54001-1 ISBN13: 978-0-521-51890-1 In this book, Flora R. Levin explores how and why music was so important to the ancient Greeks. She examines the distinctions that they drew between the theory of music as an art ruled by number and the theory wherein number is held to be ruled by the art of music. These...
Acumen Publishing Limited Chesham, UK. 2004. — 196 p. — ISBN: 1-84465-000-6; ISBN: 1-84465-001-4. Overture and beginnings. The work of music. Meaning. Value. Coda.
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