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Music, Language, and Cognition is the third collection of Peter Kivy's seminal papers in the philosophy of music. In essays which span his earliest work in the field and his more recent contributions to journals, anthologies, and conference proceedings, Kivy considers the origin of music, the medium of expression in opera, the role of music in film, the nature of an 'ideal' performance, and the question of whether absolute music has a meaning, among other issues. Rich with critical analysis and informed by the history of both philosophy and music, this volume will be of interest to anyone who likes not only to listen to music, but to think about it as well.

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Author:   Peter Kivy (Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780199217663

ISBN 10:   0199217661
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   31 May 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Part I: History 1: Mainwaring's Handel: Its Relation to British Aesthetics 2: Herbert Spencer and a Musical Dispute Part II: Opera 3: Handel's Operas: The Form of Feeling and the Problem of Appreciation 4: Anti-Semitism in Meistersinger 5: Speech, Song, and the Transparency of Medium: On Operatic Metaphysics 6: Music in the Movies: A Philosophical Inquiry Part III: Performance 7: On the Historically Informed Performance 8: Ars perfecta: Toward Perfection in Musical Performance? Part IV: Interpretation 9: Another Go at the Meaning of Music: Koopman, Davies, and the Meanings of 'Meaning' 10: Another Go at Musical Profundity: Stephen Davies and the Game of Chess 11: From Ideology to Music: Leonard Meyer's Theory of Style Change 12: Sibley's Last Paper 13: In Defense of Musical Representation: Music, Representation, and the Hybrid Arts 14: Music, Language, and Cognition: Which Doesn't Belong? Bibliography Index

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