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    Musical Concerns: Essays in Philosophy of Music

    Musical Concerns by Levinson, Jerrold;

    Essays in Philosophy of Music

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 14 June 2018

    • ISBN 9780199669677
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages182 pages
    • Size 217x137x10 mm
    • Weight 240 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This volume presents a new collection of essays on music by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today. The essays are wide-ranging and represent some of the most stimulating work being done within analytic aesthetics. Three of the essays are previously unpublished, and four of them focus on music in the jazz tradition.

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    Long description:

    This volume presents a new collection of essays, all of them dealing with music, by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today. It follows in the line of Levinson's earlier collections, Music, Art, and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), and Contemplating Art (2006), and is representative of the most stimulating work being done under the rubric of analytic aesthetics. The essays, which are wide-ranging, should appeal to aestheticians, philosophers, musicologists, music theorists, music critics and music lovers of all kinds. Three of the twelve essays comprising the volume have not previously been published, and in somewhat of a departure for Levinson, four of the essays focus on music in the jazz tradition.

    Levinson has written so many important essays in aesthetics and his reputation is so secure -- he is well established as one of our leading philosophers of art -- that any new book from him merits attention . . . it is refreshing to find multiple essays discussing songs and singing instead of composed works in the classical tradition. The value for newcomers to Levinson's work -- or even newcomers to philosophy of music or to philosophy of art -- is that it is organized so that the initial chapters consist of clear, straightforward exposition of his views on the nature of music appreciation, the value of music, and the nature of musical works.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    Philosophy and Music
    The Aesthetic Appreciation of Music
    Concatenationism, Architectonicism, and the Appreciation of Music
    Indication, Abstraction, and Individuation
    Musical Beauty
    Values of Music
    Shame in General and Shame in Music
    Jazz Vocal Interpretation: A Philosophical Analysis
    Popular Song as Moral Microcosm: Life Lessons from Jazz Standards
    The Expressive Specificity of Jazz
    Instrumentation and Improvisation
    What Is a Temporal Art?
    Index

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