Musical Representation Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion

Name: Musical Representation Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion
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ISBN: 9780262517454

ISBN-10: 0262517450

ISBN-13: 9780262517454

Edition: 2007

Authors: Charles O. Nussbaum

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How human musical experience emerges from the audition of organized tones is a riddle of long standing. In The Musical Representation, Charles Nussbaum offers a philosophical naturalist's solution. Nussbaum founds his naturalistic theory of musical representation on the collusion between the physics of sound and the organization of the human mind-brain. He argues that important varieties of experience afforded by Western tonal art music since 1650 arise through the feeling of tone, the sense of movement in musical space, cognition, emotional arousal, and the engagement, by way of specific emotional responses, of deeply rooted human ideals. Construing the art music of the modern West as…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Charles O. Nussbaum is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Arlington.