| Contents |
Note-for-note: work, performance and early notation -- Music, will, and representation -- On Hanslick's inconsistency -- Making the codes and breaking the codes: two revolutions in twentieth-century music -- Auditor's emotions: contention, concession, compromise -- Experiencing the musical emotions -- Arousal theory of musical expression: rethinking the unthinkable -- Absolute music and the new musicology -- Movements and 'movements' -- Music in memory and Music in the Moment -- How to forge a musical work. |
| Abstract |
This book presents a selection of his new and recent writings on the philosophy of music, a subject to which he has for many years been one of the most eminent contributors. In his distinctively elegant and informal style, the author explores such topics as musicology and its history, the nature of musical works, and the role of emotion in music, in a way that will attract the interest of philosophical and musical readers alike. Most of the essays are published here for the first time, all of them are accessible and self-standing, and so there is much here to delight both followers of the author's work and those who are new to it. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-226) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001275989 |
| ISBN | 0198250835 |
| ISBN | 0199246610 (pbk.) |
