Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy

The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy celebrates the ways in which musicians have historically called upon philosophy as a source of inspiration and encouragement, and scholars of music through the ages have turned to philosophy for insight into music and into the worlds that sustain it.

Sommario

• Introduction


• Tomás McAuley, Nanette Nielsen, and Jerrold Levinson


• Part 1: Mapping the Field


• 1. Historical Musicology and Philosophy


• Julian Johnson


• 2. Music Theory and Philosophy


• Alexander Rehding


• 3. Ethnomusicology and Philosophy


• Ellen Koskoff


• 4. Analytic Philosophy of Music


• David Davies


• 5. Continental Philosophy of Music


• Christopher Norris


• Part 2: History


• 6. Ancient Greece


• Armand D'Angour


• 7. The Middle Ages


• Elizabeth Eva Leach


• 8. The Early Modern Period


• Bruce R. Smith


• 9. The Enlightenment


• Tomás McAuley


• 10. The Nineteenth Century


• Andreas Dorschel


• 11. The Twentieth Century


• Tamara Levitz


• Part 3: Philosophical Traditions and Practices


• 12. Epistemologies


• Ian Cross and Elizabeth Tolbert


• 13. Ethics


• Ariana Phillips-Hutton and Nanette Nielsen


• 14. Phenomenology


• Simon Høffding


• 15. Ontology


• Charles O. Nussbaum


• 16. Theology


• Jeremy Begbie


• 17. Philosophy of Language


• Hanne Appelqvist


• 18. Hermeneutics


• Lawrence Kramer


• 19. Deconstruction


• Naomi Waltham-Smith


• 20. Posthumanism


• Gary Tomlinson


• Part 4: Musical Traditions and Practices


• 21. Improvisation


• Bruce Ellis Benson


• 22. Composition


• Joseph Dubiel


• 23. Performance


• Paul Thom


• 24. Listening


• Marcel Cobussen


• 25. Vocal music


• Freya Jarman


• 26. Electronic music


• Joanna Demers


• 27. Popular music


• Theodore Gracyk


• 28. Blacksound


• Matthew D. Morrison


• 29. Jazz


• Garry L. Hagberg


• 30. Opera


• Michael Fend


• Part 5: Key Concepts


• 31. Absolute Music


• Sarah Collins


• 32. Consciousness


• David Clarke


• 33. Evolution


• Stephen Davies


• 34. Expression


• Mark Evan Bonds


• 35. Gender


• J.P.E. Harper-Scott


• 36. The Ineffable (and Beyond)


• Carolyn Abbate and Michael Gallope


• 37. Meaning and Autonomy


• Max Paddison


• 38. Meaning and Scepticism


• Paul Boghossian


• 39. Mercy


• Martha C. Nussbaum


• 40. Nature


• Stephen Decatur Smith


• 41. Making Sense


• Andrew Bowie


• 42. Society


• Michael Gallope


• 43. Space


• Andrew Kania


• 44. Time


• Christopher Hasty


• Part 6: Collisions and Collaborations


• 45. Authenticity


• Julian Dodd and John Irving


• 46. Beauty


• Nick Zangwill and Stephen Hinton


• 47. Emotion


• Michael Spitzer and Derek Matravers


• 48. Enchantment


• Scott Burnham and Gordon Graham


• 49. Expectations


• Jenny Judge and Bence Nanay


• 50. Galant Music


• Jean-Luc Nancy, trans. Naomi Waltham-Smith and Jerrold Levinson, with an introduction by Naomi Waltham-Smith


• Naomi Waltham-Smith


• 51a. Perception


• Christopher Peacocke


• 51b. Response to Christopher Peacocke: Perception


• Nicholas Cook


• 52a. Subjectivities, Susan McClary


• 52b. Response to Susan McClary: Subjectivities


• Jeanette Bicknell

Info autore

Tomás McAuley is Assistant Professor of Music and Ad Astra Fellow at University College Dublin. Previously, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Cambridge (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship) and Indiana University, and from 2010 to 2018 served as Founding Chair of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group. He is author of The Music of Philosophy: German Idealism and Musical Thought, from Kant to Schelling, forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Nanette Nielsen is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo. She joined Oslo in January 2015, after having been Associate Professor and Lecturer at the University of Nottingham (2009-15) and at the University of East Anglia (2005-9). Nielsen works on music and philosophy, especially intersections between ethics and aesthetics, on film music, opera and music criticism in the Weimar republic, and on Scandinavian music and culture. Her publications include the co-written book Music and Ethics (2012), the article 'Ernst Krenek's "problem of freedom" in Jonny spielt auf' (Twentieth-Century Music, 2013) - for which she won the 2014 Jerome Roche Prize - and the monograph Paul Bekker's Musical Ethics (2017).

Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Maryland and Past President of the American Society for Aesthetics, 2001-2003. He is the author of five collections of essays, Music, Art, and Metaphysics (1990, 2nd ed. 2010), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), Contemplating Art (2006), Musical Concerns (2015), and Aesthetic Pursuits (2016), plus a monograph, Music in the Moment (1998). Levinson is also editor of Aesthetics and Ethics (1998), The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (2003), and Suffering Art Gladly (2013), as well as co-editor of Aesthetic Concepts (2001) and Art and Pornography (2012).

Ariana Phillips-Hutton is a Visiting Lecturer in Music at the University of Cambridge. Her research centres on the philosophy, performance, and politics of contemporary music, with specialisations in memory, violence, and conflict transformation. Recent publications include journal articles in Twentieth-Century Music, Popular Music, and the Journal of the British Academy, and she is also the author of Music Transforming Conflict (2020).

Riassunto

The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy celebrates the ways in which musicians have historically called upon philosophy as a source of inspiration and encouragement, and scholars of music through the ages have turned to philosophy for insight into music and into the worlds that sustain it.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tomas (Assistant Professor of Music and A Mcauley, Tomßs (EDT)/ Nielsen Mcauley
• Con la collaborazione di: Jerrold Levinson (Editore), Tomás McAuley (Editore), Nanette Nielsen (Editore), Ariana Phillips-Hutton (Co-editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9780199367313
• ISBN: 978-0-19-936731-3
• Pagine: 1152
• Serie: Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks Series
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica > Storia della musica