Philosophers on music
Subtitle: experience, meaning, and work
By: edited by Kathleen Stock.
Contributors: Stock, Kathleen.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199213344
Subjects: Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Musical ontology; title: Sounds, instruments and works of music / Julian Dodd; title: Doing justice to musical works / Michael Morris; title: Versions of musical works and literary translations / Stephen Davies; title: Part II: Musical expression; title: Expression in Music / Derek Matravers; title: Explaining musical experience / Paul Boghossian; title: Persona sometimes grata : on the appreciation of expressive music / Aaron Ridley; title: Part III: Musical meaning; title: Can music function as a metaphor of emotional life? / Jenefer Robinson; title: The structure of irony and how it functions in music / Eddy Zemach and Tamara Balter; title: Part IV: New issues; title: Music and electro-sonic art / Gordon Graham; title: Thoughts on rhythm / Roger Scruton.