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Stephen Davies
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Musical Understandings: and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Music |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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256 |
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2011-10-15 |
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0199608776 |
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Oxford University Press, USA |
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1.1 pounds |
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6.1 x 0.79 x 9.06 inches |
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Product Description
Musical Understandings presents an engaging collection of essays on the philosophy of music, written by Stephen Davies--one of the most distinguished philosophers in the field. He explores a range of topics in the philosophy of music, including how music expresses emotion and what is distinctive to the listener's response to this expressiveness; the modes of perception and understanding that can be expected of skilled listeners, performers, analysts, and composers and the various manners in which these understandings can be manifest; the manner in which musical works exist and their relation to their instances or performances; and musical profundity. As well as reviewing the work of philosophers of music, a number of the chapters both draw on and critically reflect on current work by psychologists concerning music. The collection includes new material, a number of adapted articles which allow for a more comprehensive, unified treatment of the issues at stake, and work published in English for the first time.
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