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What is music for? Is it the same in a Haydn symphony, the jazz fusion of Jaco Pastorius, a raga by Ravi Shankar, and an improvised song of grief in Papua New Guinea? This extremely concise book offers an opinionated and example-filled survey of some fundamental and longstanding debates about the na...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Thinking in action
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| Summary: |
What is music for? Is it the same in a Haydn symphony, the jazz fusion of Jaco Pastorius, a raga by Ravi Shankar, and an improvised song of grief in Papua New Guinea? This extremely concise book offers an opinionated and example-filled survey of some fundamental and longstanding debates about the nature of music. The central arguments and ideas are presented with the goal of making them as accessible as possible to general readers who have no background in philosophy. The emphasis is on instrumental music, but examples are drawn from many cultures as well as from Western classical, jazz, fol |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 156 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-147) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780415807784 (pbk) : 0415807786 (pbk) |
| Index Number: | ML3800 |
| CLC: | J60-02 |
| Call Number: | J60-02/G731 |
| Contents: | More than meets the ear : music and art -- With and without words : listening with understanding -- Music and emotion -- The siren voice of transcendence. |