Musical Meaning And Expression

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Musical Meaning And Expression

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Author : Stephen Davies
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1994

Musical Meaning And Expression written by Stephen Davies and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Music categories.

We talk not only of enjoying music, but of understanding it. Music is often taken to have expressive import--and in that sense to have meaning. But what does music mean, and how does it mean? Stephen Davies addresses these questions in this sophisticated and knowledgeable overview of current theories in the philosophy of music. Reviewing and criticizing the aesthetic positions of recent years, he offers a spirited explanation of his own position. Davies considers and rejects in turn the positions that music describes (like language), or depicts (like pictures), or symbolizes (in a distinctive fashion) emotions. Similarly, he resists the idea that music's expressiveness is to be explained solely as the composer's self-expression, or in terms of its power to evoke a response from the audience. Music's ability to describe emotions, he believes, is located within the music itself; it presents the aural appearance of what he calls emotion characteristics. The expressive power of music awakens emotions in the listener, and music is valued for this power although the responses are sometimes ones of sadness. Davies shows that appreciation and understanding may require more than recognition of and reaction to music's expressive character, but need not depend on formal musicological training.

Musical Meaning In Beethoven

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Author : Robert S. Hatten
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2004-10-20

Musical Meaning In Beethoven written by Robert S. Hatten and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-20 with Music categories.

Award-winning examination of Beethoven's music.

The Musical Representation

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Author : Charles O. Nussbaum
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2007

The Musical Representation written by Charles O. Nussbaum and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Emotions in music categories.

How human musical experience emerges from the audition of organized tones is a riddle of long standing. In The Musical Representation, Charles Nussbaum offers a philosophical naturalist's solution. Nussbaum founds his naturalistic theory of musical representation on the collusion between the physics of sound and the organization of the human mind-brain. He argues that important varieties of experience afforded by Western tonal art music since 1650 arise through the feeling of tone, the sense of movement in musical space, cognition, emotional arousal, and the engagement, by way of specific emotional responses, of deeply rooted human ideals. Construing the art music of the modern West as representational, as a symbolic system that carries extramusical content, Nussbaum attempts to make normative principles of musical representation explicit and bring them into reflective equilibrium with the intuitions of competent listeners. Nussbaum identifies three modes of musical representation, describes the basis of extramusical meaning, and analyzes musical works as created historical entities (performances of which are tokens or replicas). In addition, he explains how music gives rise to emotions and evokes states of mind that are religious in character. Nussbaum's argument proceeds from biology, psychology, and philosophy to music--and occasionally from music back to biology, psychology, and philosophy. The human mind-brain, writes Nussbaum, is a living record of its evolutionary history; relatively recent cognitive acquisitions derive from older representational functions of which we are hardly aware. Consideration of musical art can help bring to light the more ancient cognitive functions that underlie modern human cognition. The biology, psychology, and philosophy of musical representation, he argues, have something to tell us about what we are, based on what we have been.

Expressiveness In Music Performance

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Author : Dorottya Fabian
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Release Date : 2014

Expressiveness In Music Performance written by Dorottya Fabian and has been published by Oxford University Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Business & Economics categories.

This book brings together researchers from a range of disciplines that use diverse methodologies to provide new perspectives and formulate answers to questions about the meaning, means, and contextualisation of expressive performance in music.

A History Of Western Philosophy Of Music

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Author : James O. Young
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-01-26

A History Of Western Philosophy Of Music written by James O. Young and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-26 with Philosophy categories.

This book presents a comprehensive, accessible survey of Western philosophy of music from Pythagoras to the present. Its narrative traces themes and schools through history, in a sequence of five chapters that survey the ancient, medieval, early modern, modern and contemporary periods. Its wide-ranging coverage includes medieval Islamic thinkers, Continental and analytic thinkers, and neglected female thinkers such as Vernon Lee (Violet Paget). All aspects of the philosophy of music are discussed, including music and the cosmos, music's value, music's relation to the other arts, the problem of opera, the origins of musical genius, music's emotional impact, the moral effects of music, the ontology of musical works, and the relevance of music's historical context. The volume will be valuable for students and scholars in philosophy and musicology, and all who are interested in the ways in which philosophers throughout history have thought about music.

The Corded Shell

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Author : Peter Kivy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980

The Corded Shell written by Peter Kivy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.

Handbook Of Music And Emotion

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Author : Patrik N. Juslin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-17

Handbook Of Music And Emotion written by Patrik N. Juslin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-17 with Education categories.

A successor to the acclaimed 'Music and Emotion', The Handbook of Music and Emotion provides comprehensive coverage of the field, in all its breadth and depth. As well as summarizing what is currently known about music and emotion, it will also stimulate further research in promising directions that have been little studied.

A Dictionary Of Musical Terms

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Author : John Stainer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876

A Dictionary Of Musical Terms written by John Stainer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Music categories.

Music Performance Meaning

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Author : Nicholas Cook
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05

Music Performance Meaning written by Nicholas Cook and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.

This selection of sixteen of Nicholas Cook's essays covers the period from 1987 to 2004 and brings out the development of the author's ideas over these years. In particular the two keywords of the title -Meaning and Performance- represent critical directions that expand to the point that, by the end of the book, they become coextensive: music is seen as social action and meaning as created by that action. Within this overall direction, a wide variety of topics is explored, ranging from Beethoven to Schenker, from Chinese qin music to jazz and rock, from perceptual psychology to sketch studies and analysis of record sleeves. A substantial introduction draws out the links (and differences) between the essays, sometimes critiquing them and always setting them into the developing context of the author's work as a whole.

The Routledge Companion To Philosophy And Music

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Author : Theodore Gracyk
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011-02-14

The Routledge Companion To Philosophy And Music written by Theodore Gracyk and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-14 with Art categories.

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, music and musicology.