New Essays on Musical Understanding

New Essays on Musical Understanding
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Publisher : Clarendon Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 0199246610
ISBN-13 : 9780199246618
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Book Synopsis New Essays on Musical Understanding by : Peter Kivy

Download or read book New Essays on Musical Understanding written by Peter Kivy and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Kivy presents a selection of his new and recent writings on the philosophy of music, a subject to which he has for many years been one of the most eminent contributors. In his distinctively elegant and informal style, Kivy explores such topics as musicology and its history, the nature ofmusical works, and the role of emotion in music, in a way that will attract the interest of philosophical and musical readers alike. Most of the essays are published here for the first time, all of them are accessible and self-standing, and so there is much here to delight both followers of Kivy'swork and those who are new to it.


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