Robert Sharpe examines the humanist conception of music as a language--as expressive and intelligible--which has been a dominant theory in Western culture. He argues against the view that music is expressive by causing certain states in us. Rather, he contends that our beliefs about music are integral to our appreciation of it. Differences in musical taste are then not just irresolvable differences in sensitivity, but the result of variations in circumstance and upbringing, of associations and ideology.
Robert Sharpe examines the humanist conception of music as a language--as expressive and intelligible--which has been a dominant theory in Western culture. He argues against the view that music is expressive by causing certain states in us. Rather, he contends that our beliefs about music are integral to our appreciation of it. Differences in musical taste are then not just irresolvable differences in sensitivity, but the result of variations in circumstance and upbringing, of associations and ideology.
R. A. Sharpe is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Wales, Lampeter. He has held visiting positions in America, Australia, and Finland.
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* PART I: NATURALIZING MUSIC 1. Naturalizing Music 2. Language and metaphor, emotions and mood 3. Music, rhetoric, and oratory PART II: PLAYING OFF OLD SCORES 4. The motivations for musical ontology: a German ideology 5. Performance 6. Music's ruling myths PART III: HUMANISM FOUNDERS 7. Humanism founders? Bibliography Index.
* PART I: NATURALIZING MUSIC 1. Naturalizing Music 2. Language and metaphor, emotions and mood 3. Music, rhetoric, and oratory PART II: PLAYING OFF OLD SCORES 4. The motivations for musical ontology: a German ideology 5. Performance 6. Music's ruling myths PART III: HUMANISM FOUNDERS 7. Humanism founders? Bibliography Index.
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