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: 9780198235415

ISBN-10: 0198235410

ISBN-13: 9780198235415

Edition: 2002

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'. Lydia Goehr describes how the concept of a musical work emerged, as late as 1800, and subsequently…

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List price: $49.50
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/8/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



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