Embodied experience and sensorial understandings in Western music The Western history of aesthetics is characterised by tension between theory and practice. Mus

This volume explores Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics within a musical context. It features contributions from philosophers, musicians, educators

Music and noise seem to be mutually exclusive. Music is generally considered as an ordered arrangement of sounds pleasing to the ear and noise as its opposite:

“Truth happens to an idea.” So wrote William James in 1907; and twenty-four years later John Dewey argued that artistic experience entailed a process of “

What does imagination do for our perception of the world? Why should reality be broken off from our imagining of it? It was not always thus, and in these essays