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Music, value, and the passions

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For a century there has been a divergence between what music theorists say music is about and what the ordinary listener actually experiences. Music theory has insisted on a separation of musical experience from the experience of emotions, from the passions. Yet a passionate experience of music is just what most ordinary listeners have. Charting a new course through the minefield of contemporary philosophy of music, Aaron Ridley provides a coherent defense of the ordinary listener's beliefs.

Focusing on instrumental music in the classical Western canon, Ridley defends the commonsense position on music and attempts to return the experience of music to the ordinary listener. He argues that, through a sympathetic experience of certain musical gestures, the listener is able to grasp the passions of which the music is expressive. If the passions are properly understood, he contends, there is a place for passion in a philosophical understanding of music.

Similarly, the expression of passion may properly be considered part of the value of the music we hear.

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Cover of: Music, Value and the Passions
Music, Value and the Passions
2019, Cornell University Press
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Music, value, and the passions
1995, Cornell University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Ithaca

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
781/.1
Library of Congress
ML3847 .R53 1995, ML3847.R53 1995, B3313.Z73 R53 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 199 p. ;
Number of pages
199

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1115952M
Internet Archive
musicvaluepassio00ridl
ISBN 10
0801430356
LCCN
94042018, 98029695
OCLC/WorldCat
39354307, 31655600
Library Thing
1436887

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