Imaginary Museum of Musical Works An Essay in the Philosophy of Music

Name: Imaginary Museum of Musical Works An Essay in the Philosophy of Music
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ISBN: 9780195324785

ISBN-10: 0195324781

ISBN-13: 9780195324785

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Lydia Goehr

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What is involved in the composition, performance, and reception of classical music? What are we doing when we listen to this music seriously? Why when playing a Beethoven sonata do performers begin with the first note indicated in the score; why don't they feel free to improvise around the sonata's central theme? Why, finally, does it go against tradition for an audience at a concert of classical music to tap its feet? Bound up in these questions is the overriding question of what it means philosophically, musically, and historically for musicians to speak about music in terms of "works". In this book, Lydia Goehr describes how the concept of a musical work fully crystallized around 1800,…

Book details

List price: $69.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 8.11" wide x 5.39" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Foreword



Introductory Essay: His Master's Choice



Introduction



The Analytic Approach



A Nominalist Theory of Musical Works



A Platonist Theory of Musical Works



The Limits of Analysis and the Need for History



The Historical Approach



The Central Claim



Musical Meaning: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment



Musical Meaning: Romantic Transcendence and the Separability Principle



Musical Production without the Work-Concept



After 1800: The Beethoven Paradigm



Werktreue: Confirmation and Challenge in Contemporary Movements


Bibliography of Works Cited


Index