Musical Understandings
Title | Musical Understandings PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Davies |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2011-08-25 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0199608776 |
Musical Understandings presents an engaging collection of essays by Stephen Davies on the philosophy of music. He explores a range of topics, including how music expresses emotion, modes of perception, and musical profundity. The volume includes original material, newly revised articles, and work published in English for the first time.
Understanding Music
Title | Understanding Music PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Scruton |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 253 |
Release | 2016-02-25 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1474270182 |
With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997) Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the moral life. The book is split into two parts, the first is devoted to the aesthetics and theory of music and the second consists of critical studies of individual composers, thinkers and works including essays on Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven's Ninth, Janácek & Schoenberg, Szymanowski and Adorno. Understanding Music will appeal to specialists in philosophy and musicology and also to music lovers who wish to find deeper meaning in this mysterious art. The Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new preface from the author.
New Essays on Musical Understanding
Title | New Essays on Musical Understanding PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Kivy |
Publisher | Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780199246618 |
Peter Kivy presents a selection of his new and recent writings on the philosophy of music, a subject to which he has for many years been one of the most eminent contributors. In his distinctively elegant and informal style, Kivy explores such topics as musicology and its history, the nature ofmusical works, and the role of emotion in music, in a way that will attract the interest of philosophical and musical readers alike. Most of the essays are published here for the first time, all of them are accessible and self-standing, and so there is much here to delight both followers of Kivy'swork and those who are new to it.
Musical Performance
Title | Musical Performance PDF eBook |
Author | John Rink |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2002-12-12 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521788625 |
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Musical Meaning and Expression
Title | Musical Meaning and Expression PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Davies |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 436 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780801481512 |
We talk not only of enjoying music, but of understanding it. Music is often taken to have expressive import--and in that sense to have meaning. But what does music mean, and how does it mean? Stephen Davies addresses these questions in this sophisticated and knowledgeable overview of current theories in the philosophy of music. Reviewing and criticizing the aesthetic positions of recent years, he offers a spirited explanation of his own position. Davies considers and rejects in turn the positions that music describes (like language), or depicts (like pictures), or symbolizes (in a distinctive fashion) emotions. Similarly, he resists the idea that music's expressiveness is to be explained solely as the composer's self-expression, or in terms of its power to evoke a response from the audience. Music's ability to describe emotions, he believes, is located within the music itself; it presents the aural appearance of what he calls emotion characteristics. The expressive power of music awakens emotions in the listener, and music is valued for this power although the responses are sometimes ones of sadness. Davies shows that appreciation and understanding may require more than recognition of and reaction to music's expressive character, but need not depend on formal musicological training.
Understanding Music
Title | Understanding Music PDF eBook |
Author | N. Alan Clark |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2015-12-21 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781940771335 |
Music moves through time; it is not static. In order to appreciate music wemust remember what sounds happened, and anticipate what sounds might comenext. This book takes you on a journey of music from past to present, from the Middle Ages to the Baroque Period to the 20th century and beyond!
Teaching for Musical Understanding
Title | Teaching for Musical Understanding PDF eBook |
Author | Jackie Wiggins |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780199371730 |
Ideal for introductory music education, philosophy and psychology of music education, and music education methods courses, Teaching for Musical Understanding explains current research-based theories of how students learn in order to show prospective and practicing music teachers how to teach effectively. Author Jackie Wiggins draws on her twenty-two years of experience teaching K-12 music and twenty years of teaching in higher education to demonstrate how theory applies to music education. The text is deeply grounded in the work of social constructivist theorists and researchers in both education and music education. The third edition takes a cultural psychology perspective, giving more attention to sociocultural influences and to the roles of learner agency in learning process. It includes in-depth examples of assessment practices in music classrooms, stories "from the trenches," and more extensive use of endnotes and citations.