Awards

• "Winner of A 1995 Choice Magazine ""Outstanding Academic Title."
• Winner of A 1995 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title.
• Winner of A 1995 Choice Magazine ""Outstanding Academic Title.

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Author:   Peter Kivy
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780801484803

ISBN 10:   0801484804
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   27 January 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Authenticities is an important book, and anyone interested in philosophy of music should read it. Anyone can profit from it as a model of careful and informed conceptual analysis. James O. Young, University of Victoria, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 1999.

"""Written in lively prose, with a keen sense of reality, this volume ought to be of interest not only to philosophers and musicologists, but to all serious lovers of music.""-Roger Scruton, Times Literary Supplement ""Kivy has provided a sorely needed framework for all future discussion of the authenticity matter. This is his best book, a major contribution to performance studies and to musical aesthetics; likely it will be studied and cited for generations.""-Choice ""In his latest book on the aesthetics of music, Peter Kivy presents an argument not for authenticity but for authenticities of performance, including authenticities of intention, sound, practice, and the authenticity of personal interpretation in performance... As usual, Kivy's work is beautifully written, well argued, and provocative.""-Notes ""The consistent theme running through Kivy's book is the need for interpretation as the personal authenticity and authority of the performer against the ideology both of the composer as genius and of the puritanical devotion to the authority of the text of the early music devotees... This is a most valuable book, one which constantly surprises and delights through its philosophical insights and informed musical understanding.""-British Journal of Aesthetics ""Kivy's book is written in its author's characteristic engaging manner and is full of valuable insights into the hermeneutics and aesthetics of performing music of the past.""-Philosophical Review ""Authenticities is an important book, and anyone interested in philosophy of music should read it. Anyone can profit from it as a model of careful and informed conceptual analysis.""-James O. Young, University of Victoria, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 1999."

Kivy's book is written in its author's characteristic engaging manner and is full of valuable insights into the hermeneutics and aesthetics of performing music of the past. -Philosophical Review

Author Information

Peter Kivy is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. His previous books include Music Alone: Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience, also from Cornell.

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