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The Musical Representation

Author : Charles O. Nussbaum
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262140969
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book The Musical Representation written by Charles O. Nussbaum and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Musical ontology

Author : Lisa Giombini
Publisher : Mimesis
ISBN 13 : 8869771539
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Musical ontology written by Lisa Giombini and published by Mimesis. This book was released on 2018-01-25T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is musical ontology? Why should we as philosophers address it, if ever? These questions constitute the Ariadne’s thread running throughout this whole work. The number of papers, volumes and essays that have recently been dedicated to the topic of art and musical ontology is so vast that trying to get a grip on the debate seems like trying to find ones bearings without a compass. This book is a guide to help hapless readers find their way through this philosophical jungle. It is constructed on three levels: the presentation of the debate on musical ontology, a meta-ontological inquiry and a sort of meta-meta-ontological overview, in which both the ontological and the meta-ontological are examined. It does not contain any apology for musical ontology, nor any attempt to definitively get it off the hook. The approach is aporetic, in the spirit of an open investigation in which more questions than answers are posited. But this is the whole point. If this study manages to provide the readers with the necessary theoretical tools to answer these questions for themselves, it could be considered a success.

Musical Ontology

Author : Lisa Giombini
Publisher : Aesthetics
ISBN 13 : 9788869771064
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Musical Ontology written by Lisa Giombini and published by Aesthetics. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is musical ontology? Why should we as philosophers address it, if ever? These questions constitute the Ariadne's thread running throughout this whole work. The number of papers, volumes and essays that have recently been dedicated to the topic of art and musical ontology is so vast that trying to get a grip on the debate seems like trying to find one's bearings without a compass. This book is a guide to help hapless readers find their way through this philosophical jungle. It is constructed on three levels: the presentation of the debate on musical ontology; a meta-ontological inquiry; and a sort of meta-meta-ontological overview, in which both the ontological and the meta-ontological are examined. It does not contain any apology for musical ontology, nor any attempt to definitively get it off the hook The approach is aporetic, in the spirit of an open investigation in which more questions than answers are posited. But this is the whole point. If this study manages to provide the readers with the necessary theoretical tools to answer these questions for themselves, it could be considered a success. "Whether you are philosophers, musicians or music a cionados, whether you are interested in the analysis, the criticism, the editing, the interpretation of music, or the pursuit of speci c musicological problems, ontology may teach you the kind of issues and considerations to take into account when listening to music. And even if at the end of the book the ontology of art is still not become your cup of tea, I bet the next time you happen upon a performance of My Favorite Things you will dwell for a moment on the puzzles that the sound of music brings about."

An Analytical Study of the “Musical Ontology” of Six Musical Masterpieces

Author : Junxiang Liu
Publisher : Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA
ISBN 13 : 1649977301
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book An Analytical Study of the “Musical Ontology” of Six Musical Masterpieces written by Junxiang Liu and published by Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, six representative works by musicians from major periods of Western music history, including Classical and Romanticism, are selected for study and interpretation in the form of “musical ontology”, with the aim of refining and exploring their compositional concepts and techniques, In this way the aesthetic characteristics and artistic values of the works are recognised and understood, summarised and outlined. The six works are: Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Gershwin’s An American in Paris, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor “Pathétique”, Liszt’s Symphonic Poem No.3 Les Préludes, and Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 in C minor.

All About Music

Author : Guerino Mazzola
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319473344
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book All About Music written by Guerino Mazzola and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains music’s comprehensive ontology, its way of existence and processing, as specified in its compact characterization: music embodies meaningful communication and mediates physically between its emotional and mental layers. The book unfolds in a basic discourse in everyday language that is accessible to everybody who wants to understand what this topic is about. Musical ontology is delayed in its fundamental dimensions: its realities, its meaningful communication, and its embodied utterance from musical creators to an interested audience. The authors' approach is applicable to every musical genre and is scientific, the book is suitable for non-musicians and non-scientists alike.

Conceptualizing Music

Author : Lawrence M. Zbikowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019803217X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Conceptualizing Music written by Lawrence M. Zbikowski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to explain how we understand music. The book focuses on three cognitive processes--categorization, cross-domain mapping, and the use of conceptual models--and explores the part these play in theories of musical organization. The first part of the book provides a detailed overview of the relevant work in cognitive science, framed around specific musical examples. The second part brings this perspective to bear on a number of issues with which music scholarship has often been occupied, including the emergence of musical syntax and its relationship to musical semiosis, the problem of musical ontology, the relationship between words and music in songs, and conceptions of musical form and musical hierarchy. The book will be of interest to music theorists, musicologists, and ethnomusicologists, as well as those with a professional or avocational interest in the application of work in cognitive science to humanistic principles.

An Ontology of Multiple Artworks

Author : David Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192665235
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book An Ontology of Multiple Artworks written by David Davies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple artworks are works that can have multiple 'instances' which can play a particular kind of role in the appreciation of those works: for example, there can be multiple copies of a novel, or multiple performances of a musical work. An Ontology of Multiple Artworks is the first book-length critical analytic treatment of the metaphysical issues relating to 'multiple' artworks for over three decades. David Davies takes various considerations to which authors have appealed in arguing for ontological understandings of works in particular multiple art-forms as putative explananda, arguing that an adequate ontology of multiple artworks should be reflectively accountable to these. After clarifying what 'multiplicity' in the arts amounts to, Davies critically assesses the 'Platonist' idea that multiple artworks must be abstract or generic entities of some sort ('types') that exist independently of our creative and appreciative practices. The evolution of this idea is traced, and its ability to deal with the different explananda in play in the literature is gauged. The methodological constraints that should govern this kind of inquiry are also assessed. On the basis of these investigations, it is concluded that Platonism about multiple artworks is seriously compromised. Different non-Platonist options are then considered, and it is argued that the account that best explains the weighted explananda is the 'Wollheimian type' theory, according to which multiple artworks are performances essentially embedded in artistic practices. Finally, sceptical challenges to the very idea that there are such things as multiple artworks are considered.

Musical Creativity

Author : Guerino Mazzola
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364224517X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Musical Creativity written by Guerino Mazzola and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a new approach to musical creativity, dealing with the semiotics, mathematical principles, and software for creativity processes. After a thorough introduction, the book offers a first practical part with a detailed tutorial for students in composition and improvisation, using musical instruments and music software. The second, theoretical part deals with historical, actual, and new principles of creative processes in music, based on the results and methods developed in the first author’s book Topos of Music and referring to semiotics, predicative objects, topos theory, and object-oriented concept architectures. The third part of the book details four case studies in musical creativity, including an analysis of the six variations of Beethoven's sonata op. 109, a discussion of the creative process in a CD coproduced in 2011 by the first and second authors, a recomposition of Boulez’s "Structures pour deux pianos" using the Rubato software module BigBang developed by the third author, and the Escher theorem from mathematical gesture theory in music. This is both a textbook addressed to undergraduate and graduate students of music composition and improvisation, and also a state-of-the-art survey addressed to researchers in creativity studies and music technology. The book contains summaries and end-of-chapter questions, and the authors have used the book as the main reference to teach an undergraduate creativity studies program and also to teach composition. The text is supported throughout with musical score examples.

The Music in Music Therapy

Author : Jos De Backer
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857007122
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Music in Music Therapy written by Jos De Backer and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a wide range of European thought on music therapy practice, this book provides a deeper insight into the aspects of the therapeutic process which are enabled by music. With a theoretical, psychodynamic approach and high quality clinical case material from across Europe, the editors stress the role of music within music therapy and show how essential the musician is within the identity of a music therapist. The first of its kind, this comprehensive text is an invaluable resource for experienced music therapists worldwide, alongside students and trainees.

The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy

Author : Assistant Professor of Music and Ad Astra Fellow Tomás McAuley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199367310
Total Pages : 1151 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy written by Assistant Professor of Music and Ad Astra Fellow Tomás McAuley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 1151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether regarded as a perplexing object, a morally captivating force, an ineffable entity beyond language, or an inescapably embodied human practice, music has captured philosophically inclined minds since time immemorial. In turn, musicians of all stripes have called on philosophy as a source of inspiration and encouragement, and scholars of music through the ages have turned to philosophy for insight into music and into the worlds that sustain it. In this Handbook, contributors build on this legacy to conceptualize the rich interactions of Western music and philosophy as a series of meeting points between two vital spheres of human activity. They draw together key debates at the intersection of music studies and philosophy, offering a field-defining overview while also forging new paths. Chapters cover a wide range of musics and philosophies, including concert, popular, jazz, and electronic musics, and both analytic and continental philosophy.

New Waves in Aesthetics

Author : K. Stock
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230227457
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book New Waves in Aesthetics written by K. Stock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading young scholars present a collection of wide-ranging essays covering central problems in meta-aesthetics and aesthetic issues in the philosophy of mind, as well as offering analyses of key aesthetic concepts, new perspectives on the history of aesthetics, and specialized treatment of individual art forms.

Themes in the Philosophy of Music

Author : Stephen Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191515604
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Themes in the Philosophy of Music written by Stephen Davies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is music a language of the emotions? How do recorded pop songs differ from works created for live performance? Is John Cage's silent piece, 4'33", music? Stephen Davies's new book collects some of his most important papers on central topics in the philosophy of music. As well as perennial questions, Davies addresses contemporary controversies, including the impact of modern technology on the presentation and reception of both new and old musical works. These essays, two ofthem new and previously unpublished, are self-standing but thematically connected, and will be of great interest to philosophers, aestheticians, and to theorists of music and art.

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music

Author : Theodore Gracyk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136821880
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music written by Theodore Gracyk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Conceptualizing Music

Author : Lawrence Michael Zbikowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195140230
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Conceptualizing Music written by Lawrence Michael Zbikowski and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play of concepts and conceptual structures typical of music theory is thus not something remote from our appreciation of music, but is instead basic to it."--Jacket.

The Topos of Music III: Gestures

Author : Guerino Mazzola
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319644815
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Topos of Music III: Gestures written by Guerino Mazzola and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume of the second edition of the now classic book “The Topos of Music”. The authors present gesture theory, including a gesture philosophy for music, the mathematics of gestures, concept architectures and software for musical gesture theory, the multiverse perspective which reveals the relationship between gesture theory and the string theory in theoretical physics, and applications of gesture theory to a number of musical themes, including counterpoint, modulation theory, free jazz, Hindustani music, and vocal gestures.

The Normativity of Musical Works: A Philosophical Inquiry

Author : Alessandro Arbo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004462775
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Normativity of Musical Works: A Philosophical Inquiry written by Alessandro Arbo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essay advocates a theory of the musical work as a “social object” which is based on a trace informed by a normative value. Such a normativity is explored in relation to three ways of fixing the trace: orality, notation and phonography.

The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures

Author : Harris M. Berger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190693878
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures written by Harris M. Berger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A source of profound insights into human existence and the nature of lived experience, phenomenology is among the most influential intellectual movements of the last hundred years. The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures brings ideas from the phenomenological tradition of Continental European philosophy into conversation with theoretical, ethnographic, and historical work from ethnomusicology, anthropology, sound studies, folklore studies, and allied disciplines to develop new perspectives on musical practices and auditory cultures. With sustained theoretical meditations and evocative ethnography, the book's twenty-two chapters advance scholarship on topics at the heart of the study of music and culture today--from embodiment, atmosphere, and Indigenous ontologies, to music's capacity to reveal new possibilities of the person, the nature of virtuosity, issues in research methods, the role of memory, imagination, and states of consciousness in musical experience, and beyond. Thoroughly up-to-date, the handbook engages with both classical and contemporary phenomenology, as well as theoretical traditions that have drawn from it, such as affect theory or the German-language literature on cultural techniques. Together, these essays make major contributions to fundamental theory in the study of music and culture.