Philosophers on Music

Experience, Meaning, and Work
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-921334-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 557 g

Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work presents significant new contributions to central issues in the philosophy of music, written by leading philosophers working in the analytic tradition.

Music is an increasingly popular object of reflection for professional philosophers, as it raises special questions not only of relevance to music practitioners, theorists, and philosophers of art, but also of wider philosophical interest to those working in metaphysics, the philosophy of emotion, and the philosophy of language, among other areas. The wide range of contributors to this volume reflects this level of interest. It includes both well-known philosophers of music drawing on a wealth of reflection to produce new and often startling conclusions, and philosophers relatively new to the philosophy of music yet eminent in other philosophical fields, who are able to bring a fresh perspective, informed by that background, to their topic of choice.

The issues tackled in this volume include what sort of thing a work of music is; the nature of the relation between a musical work and versions of it; the nature of musical expression and its contribution to musical experience; the relation of music to metaphor; the nature of musical irony; the musical status of electro-sonic art; and the nature of musical rhythm. Together these papers constitute some of the best new work in what is an exciting field of research, and one which has much to engage philosophers, aestheticians, and musicologists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stock, Kathleen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Acknowledgements

- List of musical examples

- Introduction

- Section 1: Musical Ontology

- 1: Julian Dodd: Sounds, instruments and works of music

- 2: Michael Morris: Doing Justice to Musical Works

- 3: Stephen Davies: Versions of musical works and literary translations

- Section 2: Musical Expression

- 4: Derek Matravers: Expression in Music

- 5: Paul Boghossian: Explaining Musical Experience

- 6: Aaron Ridley: Persona Sometimes Grata: on the appreciation of expressive music

- Section 3: Musical Meaning

- 7: Jenefer Robinson: Can Music Function as a Metaphor of Emotional Life?

- 8: Eddy Zemach and Tamara Balter: The Structure of Irony and how it Functions in Music

- Section 4: New Issues

- 9: Gordon Graham: Music and Electro-sonic Art

- 10: Roger Scruton: Thoughts on Rhythm

- Index of subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Kathleen Stock is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sussex. She works primarily in the philosophy of fiction, art, and imagination.