Listening to music is not merely something one does, but
something central to a way of living. Listening has the power to
transport one into another way of being. It is a mode of feeling
and forms the bedrock of deep emotion. Written from the viewpoint
of a philosophy of sensibility, Matthew Del Nevo notes that this
perspective may not be in fashion, but it follows a long
tradition.
Del Nevo emphasizes the aesthetic experience of listening to art
music as it has developed and disintegrated in Western
civilization. He recognizes a deep psychological element to what he
calls "soul"--or more accurately "sensibility." He addresses music
in a non-technical way, taking up the powerful art theory of
Charles Baudelaire, the music philosophy of Schopenhauer and
Richard Wagner, and takes a strong critical stand against modernist
intellectual art music.
The importance of this book for the musically- literate reader
is its insight into the metaphysics of nostalgia. This
comprehension is missing from nearly all musical instruction
because we have lost sight of it. Del Nevo asserts that this
understanding must be brought back into our culture. And since this
is a book about listening to art music, it is no less about
sensibility and its cultivation, which in its object form we call
culture. An engaging book, Art Music will appeal to those
interested in music, culture, and philosophy.
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