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9780199217663

Music, Language, and Cognition And Other Essays in the Aesthetics of Music

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    9780199217663

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    0199217661

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-07-26
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Music, Language, and Cognition is the third collection of Peter Kivy's seminal papers in the philosophy of music. In essays which span his earliest work in the field and his more recent contributions to journals, anthologies, and conference proceedings, Kivy considers the origin of music, the medium of expression in opera, the role of music in film, the nature of an "ideal" performance, and the question of whether absolute music has a meaning, among other issues. Rich with critical analysis and informed by the history of both philosophy and music, this volume will be of interest to anyone who likes not only to listen to music, but to think about it as well.

Author Biography

Peter Kivy is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Table of Contents

History
Mainwaring's Handel: Its Relation to British Aestheticsp. 3
Herbert Spencer and a Musical Disputep. 14
Opera and Film
Handel's Operas: The Form of Feeling and the Problem of Appreciationp. 33
Anti-Semitism in Meistersinger?p. 44
Speech, Song, and the Transparency of Medium: On Operatic Metaphysicsp. 51
Music in the Movies: A Philosophical Inquiryp. 62
Performance
On the Historically Informed Performancep. 91
Ars perfecta: Toward Perfection in Musical Performance?p. 111
Interpretation
Another Go at the Meaning of Music: Koopman, Davies, and the Meanings of "Meaning"p. 137
Another Go at Musical Profundity: Stephen Davies and the Game of Chessp. 154
From Ideology to Music: Leonard Meyer's Theory of Style Changep. 167
Sibley's Last Paperp. 183
In Defense of Musical Representation: Music, Representation, and the Hybrid Artsp. 199
Music, Language, and Cognition: Which Doesn't Belong?p. 214
Bibliographyp. 233
Indexp. 239
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