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Platonism, Music and the Listener's Share (Hardcover)
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Platonism, Music and the Listener's Share (Hardcover)
Series: Continuum Studies in Philosophy
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What is a musical work? What are its identity-conditions and the
standards (if any) that they set for a competent, intelligent, and
musically perceptive act of performance or audition? Should the
work-concept henceforth be dissolved as some New Musicologists
would have it into the various, everchanging socio-cultural or
ideological contexts that make up its reception-history to date?
Can music be thought of as possessing certain attributes,
structural features, or intrinsically valuable qualities that are
response-transcendent, i.e., that might always elude or surpass the
best state of (current or future) informed opinion? These are some
of the questions that Christopher Norris addresses by way of a
sustained critical engagement with the New Musicology and other
debates in recent philosophy of music. His book puts the case for a
qualified Platonist approach that would respect the relative
autonomy of musical works as objects of more or less adequate
understanding, appreciation, and evaluative judgement. At the same
time this approach would leave room for listeners share the
phenomenology of musical experience in so far as those works
necessarily depend for their repeated realisation from one
performance or audition to the next upon certain subjectively
salient modalities of human perceptual and cognitive response.
Norris argues for a more philosophically and musically informed
treatment of these issues that combines the best insights of the
analytic and the continental traditions. Perhaps the most
distinctive feature of Norris's book, true to this dual
orientation, is its way of raising such issues through a constant
appeal to the vivid actuality of music as a challenge to
philosophic thought. This is a fascinating study of musical
understanding from one of the worlds leading contemporary
theorists.
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