| Contents |
Aesthetics of music: limits and grounds / Francis Sparshott -- The work of making a work of music / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- Music and form / Edward T. Cone -- How music moves / Peter Kivy -- Music as a representational art / Jenefer Robinson -- Music as philosophy / Philip Alperson -- On the semiotics of music / Joseph Margolis -- Musical de-composition / Arnold Berleant -- Performance and obligation / Morris Grossman -- Song and music drama / Jerrold Levinson -- The evaluation of music / Stephen Davies -- Music and history / Martin Donougho -- Musical understanding and musical culture / Roger Scruton -- The challenge of contemporary music / Rose Rosengard Subotnik. |
| Abstract |
The essays in this volume address fundamental questions about the ontology and meaning of music, about composition, performance and song; they range over problems in the evaluation of music and of the place of music in history and culture, generally. The author delivers a comprehensive introduction with a historical overview of philosophical reflections on music and argues for the necessity of a distinction between a normative aesthetics of music, which takes as its focus music in the fine arts tradition and the philosophy of music, and a larger inquiry, which takes as its object the entire range and significance of music as a human practice. |
| General note | Originally published: Haven Publications, c1987. With an updated bibliography. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-420). |
| LCCN | 93041866 |
| ISBN | 0271011181 (pbk.) |
