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Zusatztext "Challenges the reader to dig hard for a better understanding of the issues. . . . Highly recommended." Informationen zum Autor Lawrence Kramer , is Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University. He is the author of many books, most recently, Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History , Opera and Modern Culture , and Why Classical Music Still Matters . Klappentext “Vintage Kramer: Musicology at its best and most responsible. Expression and Truth is a tour de force that continues the author’s longstanding commitment to understand music as a form of knowledge, a critical but often marginalized element of the ‘fundamental grammar of culture.’ This singularly original extended essay shows why and how music—expression in its most concentrated form—is the key to deciphering that grammar. Above all, as Kramer’s new book puts it, ‘we need not only to think about expression but also to think with it.’ Amen, and bravo.”—Richard Leppert, Regents Professor, University of Minnesota Zusammenfassung Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. This title features five theses that connect expression to description, cognition, the presence and absence of speech, and the conjunction of address and reply. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. Wittgenstein! Music! and the Aroma of Coffee II. Speaking Melody III. Expression and Truth IV. Melodic Speech V. Wittgenstein! Music! and the Tone of Crystal
