The fine art of repetition:essays in the philosophy of music

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kivy Peter
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge [England] New York
Publication Dates: 1993.
Literature type: Musical Score Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: x, 373 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0521434629 (hardback)
0521435986 (pbk.)
Index Number: J601
CLC: J601-53
J60-02
Call Number: J60-02/K628
Contents: Collection of essays written over the past thirty years and published in various books and journals.
Includes bibliographical references.
Music and the liberal education -- Platonism in music : a kind of defense -- Platonism in music : another kind of defense -- Orchestrating Platonism -- Live performances and dead composers : on the ethics of musical interpretation -- On the concept of the "historically authentic" performance -- Opera talk : a philosophical "phantasie" -- How did Mozart do it? : living conditions in the world of opera -- How did Mozart do it? : replies to some critics -- Mozart and monotheism : an essay in spurious aesthetics -- Child Mozart as an aesthetic symbol -- Charles Darwin on music -- Mattheson as ph