Understanding music
Subtitle: the nature and limits of musical cognition
By: Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht ; translated by Richard Evans.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754666127
Subjects: Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Music appreciation
Work titles: Musik verstehen.
Notes: Translation of: Musik verstehen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Aesthetic understanding I : on the concept; title: Understanding musical sense; title: Aesthetic experience; title: The subjectivity of understanding; title: Intermezzo I : ontology, interpretation and performance; title: Aesthetic understanding II : stimulus and representation; title: Form-sense and emotional content; title: Questioning the understanding of sense; title: Intermezzo II : aesthetic identification; title: Cognitive understanding; title: On the concept; title: The relationship between aesthetic and cognitive understanding; title: Talking about music I : recommendations for musical analysis; title: The limits of cognitive understanding; title: The complexity of the aesthetic object; title: The open-ended nature of music and its meaning; title: The subjectivity of cognition; title: The ineffability of musical beauty; title: Talking about music II : the encircling approach; title: Intermezzo III : identifying life with art; title: John Cage; title: Understanding?