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Author Kivy, Peter.

Title Music, language, and cognition : and other essays in the aesthetics of music / Peter Kivy.

Imprint Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  781.17 K658m 2007    ---  Available
Description xvi, 243 p. : music ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-237) and index.
Contents I. History. Mainwaring's Handel : its relation to British aesthetics -- Herbert Spencer and a musical dispute -- II. Opera and film. Handel's operas : the form of feeling and the problem of appreciation -- Anti-Semitism in Meistersinger? -- Speech, song, and the transparency of medium : on operatic metaphysics -- Music in the movies : a philosophical inquiry -- III. Performance. On the historically informed performance -- Ars perfecta : toward perfection in musical performance? -- IV. Interpretation. Another go at the meaning of music : Koopman, Davies, and the meaning of "meaning" -- Another go at musical profundity : Stephen Davies and the game of chess -- From ideology to music : Leonard Meyer's theory of style change -- Sibley's last paper -- In defense of musical representation : music, representation, and the hybrid arts -- Music, language, and cognition : which doesn't belong?
Subject Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Psychological aspects.
Cognition.
Music and language.
ISBN 0199217653 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0199217661 (alk. paper)
9780199217663 (alk. paper)
9780199217656 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000041249011
NZ1 11212179
IG# 9780199217663

 
    
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