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- catalog abstract ""Robert Sharpe examines a series of fundamental questions about our understanding and appreciation of music, towards a reassessment of the conception of music that has been dominant in Western culture. He focuses on the problem of expression in music, and on the role of pleasure in aesthetic judgement. He argues against the view that music is expressive in as much as it causes certain states in us: this view underestimates the cognitive element in our response to music. Our beliefs about music are integral to our appreciation of it; and general ideas about music and its relation to its times - our ideologies - underlie our judgement. Differences in musical taste are not just primitive and irresolvable difference in sensitivity: they are the result of differences in circumstance and upbringing, of associations and ideology. The metaphor of music as a language has exerted a deep influence on the way we think about music and the way we hear it: we conceive of music as expressive and as something to be understood. These two ideas underpin the thought that it is a humanist art. Sharpe suggests that Western music may have entered a new period in which the language analogy and the humanist conception are becoming less and less appropriate."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11731336.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Robert Sharpe examines a series of fundamental questions about our understanding and appreciation of music, towards a reassessment of the conception of music that has been dominant in Western culture. He focuses on the problem of expression in music, and on the role of pleasure in aesthetic judgement. He argues against the view that music is expressive in as much as it causes certain states in us: this view underestimates the cognitive element in our response to music. Our beliefs about music are integral to our appreciation of it; and general ideas about music and its relation to its times - our ideologies - underlie our judgement. Differences in musical taste are not just primitive and irresolvable difference in sensitivity: they are the result of differences in circumstance and upbringing, of associations and ideology. The metaphor of music as a language has exerted a deep influence on the way we think about music and the way we hear it: we conceive of music as expressive and as something to be understood. These two ideas underpin the thought that it is a humanist art. Sharpe suggests that Western music may have entered a new period in which the language analogy and the humanist conception are becoming less and less appropriate."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 209]-217) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. I. Naturalizing Music. 1. Naturalizing Music. 2. Language, Metaphor, Emotions, and Moods. 3. Music, Rhetoric, and Oratory -- pt. II. Playing Off Old Scores. 4. The Motivations for Musical Ontology: A German Ideology. 5. Performance. 6. Music's Ruling Myths -- pt. III. Humanism Founders? 7. Humanism Founders?".
- catalog extent "ix, 221 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0198238851".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "780.1/7 21".
- catalog subject "ML3845 .S417 2000".
- catalog subject "Music Philosophy and aesthetics.".
- catalog subject "Music Psychological aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Naturalizing Music. 1. Naturalizing Music. 2. Language, Metaphor, Emotions, and Moods. 3. Music, Rhetoric, and Oratory -- pt. II. Playing Off Old Scores. 4. The Motivations for Musical Ontology: A German Ideology. 5. Performance. 6. Music's Ruling Myths -- pt. III. Humanism Founders? 7. Humanism Founders?".
- catalog title "Music and humanism : an essay in the aesthetics of music / R.A. Sharpe.".
- catalog type "text".