TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ridley,Aaron
TI  - Music, Value and the Passions
SN  - 9781501744778
AV  - ML3847 .R53 1995
U1  - 781/.1 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Emotions in music
KW  - Music
KW  - Philosophy and aesthetics
KW  - Art History
KW  - Musical Arts & Ethnomusicology
KW  - MUSIC / History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501744778
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501744778
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501744778/original
ER  -