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Hermeneutics and Music Criticism forges new perspectives on aesthetics, politics and contemporary interpretive strategies. By advancing new insights into the roles judgment and imagination play both in our experiences of music and its critical interpretation, this book reevaluat…
Why do we feel justified in using adjectives such as romantic, erotic, heroic, melancholic, and a hundred others when speaking about music? How do we locate these meanings within particular musical styles? These are questions that have occupied Derek Scott's thoughts and driven …
What does it mean to say that music is deeply moving? Or that music's aesthetic value derives from its deep structure? This study traces the widely employed trope of musical depth to its origins in German-language music criticism and analysis. From the Romantic aesthetics of E.T…
"What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? The Thought of Music, completing a trilogy on musical understanding with Interpreting Music and Expression and Truth, grapples directly with these fundamental questions--questi…
Beethoven's late style is epitomized by his ninth symphony, the "Missa Solemnis", as well as five piano sonatas, five string quartets, a mass, and several smaller piano works. This book examines these late works in light of the musical and philosophical writings of Theodor Adorn…
The Nature of Nordic Music
by Howell, Tim, Michael Fjeldsøe, Sanne Krogh Groth, Hans Weisethaunet, Andrew Bentley, James Andean, Àrni Heimir Ingòlfsson, Henrik Marstal, Margret Sigrun Sigurdardottir, Haftor Medbøe, Tor Dybo, Meri Kytö, Juha Torvinen, Susanna Välimäki, Tim Howell, Richard Powell, Michael Rofe
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The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy celebrates the ways in which musicians have historically called upon 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 …
The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. This book presents a synthetic and innovative approach to musical meaning which argues deftly for the thinking of music as a discourse in its…
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. Over fifty entries by an international team of contributors are organised into six clear sections: general issu…
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism, Music -- 20th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics, Music -- 21st century -- History and criticism, Music -- 21st century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Critical analysis of Rousseau's work in music has been principally the domain of musicologists, rarely involving the work of scholars of political theory or literary studies. In Rousseau Among the Moderns, Julia Simon puts forth fresh interpretations of The Social Contract, the …
