Humanism and the Aesthetic Experience in Music
Author : Walter L. Wehner
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Walter L. Wehner
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Walter L. Wehner
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 1977
Category :
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Author : R. A. Sharpe
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198238850
The metaphor of music as a language has exerted a deep influence on the way we think about music and the way we hear it: we conceive of music as expressive and as something to be understood. These two ideas underpin the thought that it is a humanist art. Sharpe suggests that Western music may have entered a new period in which the language analogy and the humanist conception are becoming less and less appropriate."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Edward A. Lippman
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781576471210
Our field of inquiry - Material - Form - Meaning - Style - Permanence - Composites - Context - Conception.
Author : Warren A. Shibles
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401585792
Emotion in Aesthetics is the first book on aesthetics to provide an extensive theory of emotion; application of the cognitive-emotive theory to aesthetics; analysis of the relationship between aesthetics, metaphor and emotion; a full theory of meaning and its application to aesthetics; discussion of the relationship between aesthetics, music and language in terms of phonetics, phonology and intonation; an analysis of humanistic aesthetics; a well-developed naturalistic theory of ethics as applied to aesthetics and emotion. Stress is placed on the views of contemporary philosophers as well as some of the main historical accounts of emotion in aesthetics. The important recent work on emotion has not hitherto been applied to aesthetics. As a result there is still much confusion in aesthetics about aesthetic emotion and related concepts, such as the expression theory of emotion. The present book has been written to show how the theory can be used to clarify the issue, resulting in a major breakthrough in aesthetics. In addition, the theory presented is valuable in relating aesthetics to ethics and humanism.
Author : Stephen Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2003-01-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0191515604
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.
Author : Iain Chambers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136400370
Culture After Humanism asks what happens to the authority of traditional western modes of thought in the wake of postmodernist theories of language and identity. Drawing on examples from music, architecture, literature, philosophy and art, Iain Chambers investigates moments of tension, interruptions which transform our perception of the world and test the limits of language, art and technology.
Author : Fred Everett Maus
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Humanism
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Author : Holly Watkins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 2018-11-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 022659470X
Does it make sense to refer to bird song—a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate—as art? What about a pack of wolves howling in unison or the cacophony made by an entire rain forest? Redefining music as “the art of possibly animate things,” Musical Vitalities charts a new path for music studies that blends musicological methods with perspectives drawn from the life sciences. In opposition to humanist approaches that insist on a separation between culture and nature—approaches that appear increasingly untenable in an era defined by human-generated climate change—Musical Vitalities treats music as one example of the cultural practices and biotic arts of the animal kingdom rather than as a phenomenon categorically distinct from nonhuman forms of sonic expression. The book challenges the human exceptionalism that has allowed musicologists to overlook music’s structural resemblances to the songs of nonhuman species, the intricacies of music’s physiological impact on listeners, and the many analogues between music’s formal processes and those of the dynamic natural world. Through close readings of Austro-German music and aesthetic writings that suggest wide-ranging analogies between music and nature, Musical Vitalities seeks to both rekindle the critical potential of nineteenth-century music and rejoin the humans at the center of the humanities with the nonhumans whose evolutionary endowments and planetary fates they share.
Author : Andy Hamilton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 2007-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 144119150X
The Continuum Aesthetics Series looks at the aesthetic questions and issues raised by all major art forms. Stimulating, engaging and accessible, the series offers food for thought not only for students of aesthetics, but also for anyone with an interest in philosophy and the arts. Aesthetics and Music is a fresh and often provocative exploration of the key concepts and arguments in musical aesthetics. It draws on the rich heritage of the subject, while proposing distinctive new ways of thinking about music as an art form. The book looks at: The experience of listening Rhythm and musical movement What modernism has meant for musical aesthetics The relation of music to other 'sound arts' Improvisation and composition as well as more traditional issues in musical aesthetics such as absolute versus programme music and the question of musical formalism. Thinkers discussed range from Pythagoras and Plato to Kant, Nietzsche and Adorno. Areas of music covered include classical, popular and traditional music, and jazz. Aesthetics and Music makes an eloquent case for a humanistic, democratic and genuinely aesthetic conception of music and musical understanding. Anyone interested in what contemporary philosophy has to say about music as an art form will find this thought-provoking and highly enjoyable book required reading.