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Musical concerns : essays in philosophy of music / Jerrold Levinson.
LIBRA ML3800 .L48 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levinson, Jerrold, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 173 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- 1 Philosophy and Music 7
- 2 The Aesthetic Appreciation of Music 17
- 3 Concatenationism, Architectonicism, and the Appreciation of Music 32
- 4 Indication, Abstraction, and Individuation 45
- 5 Musical Beauty 58
- 6 Values of Music 67
- 7 Shame in General and Shame in Music 88
- 8 Jazz Vocal Interpretation: A Philosophical Analysis 99
- 9 Popular Song as Moral Microcosm: Life Lessons from Jazz Standards 115
- 10 The Expressive Specificity of Jazz 131
- 11 Instrumentation and Improvisation 144
- 12 What Is a Temporal Art? 155 with Philip Alperson 155.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 019966966X
- 9780199669660
- OCLC:
- 909732249
- Publisher Number:
- 99963969569
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