Works of music : an essay in ontology / Julian Dodd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dodd, Julian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 286 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this original and iconoclastic book, Julian Dodd argues for what he terms the simple view of the ontological nature of works of pure, instrumental music. This account is the conjunction of two theses: the type/token theory and sonicism. The type/token theory addresses the question of which ontological category musical works fall under, and its answer is that such works are types whose tokens are sound-sequence-events. Sonicism, meanwhile, addresses thequestion of how works of music are individuated, and it tells us that works of music are identical just in case they sound exactly alike.Both

Contents:

Introduction

The type/token theory introduced

Motivating the type/token theory : repeatability

Nominalist approaches to the ontology of music

Musical anti-realism

The type/token theory elaborated

Types I : abstract, unstructured, unchanging

Types introduced and nominalism repelled

Types as abstracta

Types as unstructured entities

Types as fixed and unchanging

Types II : platonism

Introduction : eternal existence and timelessness

Types and properties

The eternal existence of properties reconsidered

Types and patterns

Defending the type/token theory I

Unstructuredness and analogical predication

Musical works as fixed and unchanging

Abstractness and audibility (again)

Works and interpretations

Conclusion and resume

Defending the type/token theory II : musical platonism

Platonism it is : replies to Anderson and Levinson

The existence conditions of works of music

Composition as creative discovery

The nature of the compositional process : replies to objections

Composition and aesthetic appraisal : a reply to Levinson

Composition and aesthetic appraisal : understanding, interpretation, and correctness

Musical works as continuants : a theory rejected

A theory introduced

Explicating and motivating the continuant view

The continuant view and repeatability

Further objections to the continuant view

Musical works as compositional actions : a critique

Currie's action-type hypothesis

Davies's performance theory

Sonicism I : against instrumentalism

Sonicism introduced

Sonicism motivated : moderate empiricism

Instrumentation : timbral sonicism introduced

Scores

Instrumentation, artistic properties, and aesthetic content

Levinson's rejoinder

Sonicism II : against contextualism

Introduction : formulating contextualism

Contextualist ontological proposals

Levinson's doppelganger thought-experiments

Artistic, representational, and object-directed expressive properties

Aesthetic and non-object-directed expressive properties

Conclusion : the place of context.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-282) and index.

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ISBN:

1-281-15406-7

9786611154066

0-19-153637-7

1-4356-2349-5

OCLC:

183915530