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Philosophy of music. Philosophy of music is the study of "fundamental questions about the nature and value of music and our experience of it". [1] The philosophical study of music has many connections with philosophical questions in metaphysics and aesthetics. The expression was born in the 19th century and has been used especially as the name ...
Aesthetics is a sub-discipline of philosophy. In the 20th century, important contributions to the aesthetics of music were made by Peter Kivy, Jerrold Levinson, Roger Scruton, and Stephen Davies. However, many musicians, music critics, and other non-philosophers have contributed to the aesthetics of music. In the 19th century, a significant ...
The Performance of Reading: an Essay in the Philosophy of Literature (2006). Music, Language, and Cognition: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Music, further collected essays of Peter Kivy (collection, 2007). Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music (2009). Once-Told Tales: An Essay in Literary Aesthetics (2011).
But, being concerned with human forms (at least in Schopenhauer's day) and human emotions, these art forms were inferior to music, which being a direct manifestation of will, was to Schopenhauer's mind the highest form of art. Schopenhauer's philosophy of music was influential in the works of Richard Wagner. Wagner was an enthusiastic reader of ...
Stephen Davies (philosopher) Stephen John Davies is a Distinguished Professor of philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. [1] He mainly writes on aesthetics, particularly the philosophy of music but also works on political philosophy. [2] He is a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics (2007–2008), and the New ...
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. [1][2][3] Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all human societies. [4] Definitions of music vary widely in substance and approach. [5]
Nietzsche, aesthetics, philosophy of music. Kathleen Marie Higgins (born 1954) is an American professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin where she has been teaching for over thirty years. [1] She specializes in aesthetics, philosophy of music, nineteenth and twentieth-century continental philosophy, and philosophy of emotion.
Cognitive musicology can be differentiated from other branches of music psychology via its methodological emphasis, using computer modeling to study music-related knowledge representation with roots in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. The use of computer models provides an exacting, interactive medium in which to formulate and ...