The Interpretation of Music: Philosophical Essays - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019823550X ISBN 13: 9780198235507

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1995

Synopsis

The nineteen essays in this collection address such interrelated questions as: the nature of musical interpretation in relation to works or music, whether works of music are fully embodied in scores, how strictly all markings of a score should be respected, what pertinence historical research
has for musical interpretation, and how decisive the known or reconstructed intentions of a composer should be.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Krausz, Milton C. Nahm Professor of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania.

Review:

"Accessible musings by some of the most sophisticated American aestheticians of music."--Philadelphia Inquirer

"The philosophy of music aims to intersect our natural reflections on musical experience and practice with the general preoccupations of philosophy, and so to distil universal aspects of music. When this is done well, the philosophy of music shares and extraphilosophical value of good music criticism: it enhances our sense of the contours of musical experience and pays homage to the intensely particular character of musical works. A number of the papers in Michael Krausz's collection have this virtue."--Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 019823550X
• ISBN 13: 9780198235507
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Krausz Michael