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Music, Value and the Passions / Aaron Ridley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501744778
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781/.1 23
LOC classification:
  • ML3847 .R53 1995
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Music And The Passions -- 2. Value And The Passions -- 3. Understanding Music -- 4. Musical Melisma -- 5. Melisma Assessed -- 6. Musical Sympathies -- 7. Distressing Music -- 8. Musical Empathies -- Conclusion -- Index
Summary: For a century there has been a divergence between what music theorists say music is about and what the ordinary listener actually experiences. Music theory has insisted on a separation of musical experience from the experience of emotions, from the passions. Yet a passionate experience of music is just what most ordinary listeners have. Charting a new course through the minefield of contemporary philosophy of music, Aaron Ridley provides a coherent defense of the ordinary listener's beliefs.Focusing on instrumental music in the classical Western canon, Ridley defends the commonsense position on music and attempts to return the experience of music to the ordinary listener. He argues that, through a sympathetic experience of certain musical gestures, the listener is able to grasp the passions of which the music is expressive. If the passions are properly understood, he contends, there is a place for passion in a philosophical understanding of music. Similarly, the expression of passion may properly be considered part of the value of the music we hear.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Music And The Passions -- 2. Value And The Passions -- 3. Understanding Music -- 4. Musical Melisma -- 5. Melisma Assessed -- 6. Musical Sympathies -- 7. Distressing Music -- 8. Musical Empathies -- Conclusion -- Index

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For a century there has been a divergence between what music theorists say music is about and what the ordinary listener actually experiences. Music theory has insisted on a separation of musical experience from the experience of emotions, from the passions. Yet a passionate experience of music is just what most ordinary listeners have. Charting a new course through the minefield of contemporary philosophy of music, Aaron Ridley provides a coherent defense of the ordinary listener's beliefs.Focusing on instrumental music in the classical Western canon, Ridley defends the commonsense position on music and attempts to return the experience of music to the ordinary listener. He argues that, through a sympathetic experience of certain musical gestures, the listener is able to grasp the passions of which the music is expressive. If the passions are properly understood, he contends, there is a place for passion in a philosophical understanding of music. Similarly, the expression of passion may properly be considered part of the value of the music we hear.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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