Listening to Music
In this book the author argues that human musical understanding is rooted in the traditions of culture and that experience of music depends crucially on what the individual brings to it.
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SWANSEA STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY
General Editor: D.Z. Phillips, Professor of Philosophy, University College of Swansea Philosophy is the struggle for clarity about the contexts of human discourse we engage in. What we need is not theoretical explanation, but clarification and elucidation of what lies before us. Recent returns to theory in many fields of philosophy, involving more and more convoluted attempts to meet inevitable counterexamples to such theories, make this need all the more urgent. This series affords an opportunity for writers who share this conviction, one as relevant to logic, epistemology and the philosophy of mind, as it is to ethics, politics, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion. Authors will be expected to engage with the thought of influential philosophers and contemporary movements, thus making the series a focal point for lively discussion. R. W. Beardsmore ETHICS SINCE 1950
David Cockburn OTHER HUMAN BEINGS
John Edelman AN AUDIENCE FOR MORAL PHILOSOPHY?
Martyn Evans LISTENING TO MUSIC
Raimond Gaita GOOD AND EVIL: AN ABSOLUTE CONCEPTION
[);Z. Phillips INTERVENTIONS IN ETHICS WmGENSTEIN AND RELIGION B.R. Tilghman WITIGENSTEIN, ETHICS AND AESTHETICS: THE VIEW FROM ETERNITY
Listening to Music Martyn Evans University College Fellow Centre for Philosophy and Health Care University College of Swansea, Wales
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MACMILLAN
© Martyn Evans 1990 Sof'tcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1990
All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright LicenSing Agency, 33-4 Alfred Place, London WC1E 7DP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 1990 Published by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world Filmsetby Wearside Tradespools, Fulwell, Sunderland British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Evan~Martyn, 1956Listening to music. - (Swansea studies in philosophy). 1. Music. Appreciation. Cultural aspects I. Title II. Series 780/.1'5 ISBN 978-1-349-11738-3 ISBN 978-1-349-11736-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-11736-9
For my mother and father, who encouraged in me a love of music and of learning
Contents Acknowledgements
viii
1
A Tale of Two Listeners
2
Emotion
15
3
Judgement
48
4
Expression and Gesture
75
5
Perspective and Culture
100
6
Coda
136
1
Bibliography
155
Index
157
vii
Acknowledgements This is not a work of textual scholarship, nor an exercise in specifically Wittgensteinian philosophy, but the influence of Wittgenstein will be readily apparent in what follows. His thoughts were my springboard, and in a sense the
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