Davies, Stephen - Musical Understandings

Musical Understandings presents an engaging collection of essays by Stephen Davies on the philosophy of music. He explores a range of topics, including how music expresses emotion, modes of perception, and musical profundity. The volume includes original material, newly revised articles, and work published in English for the first time.

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CONTENTS

1 Artistic Expression and the Hard Case of Pure Music
2 Music and Metaphor
3 Cross-cultural Musical Expressiveness: Theory and the Empirical Program
4 Emotional Contagion from Music to Listener
5 Once Again, This Time with Feeling
6 Musical Meaning in a Broader Perspective
7 Musical Understandings
8 The Experience of Music
9 Cosi's Canon Quartet
10 Perceiving Melodies
11 Musical Colors and Timbral Sonicism
12 Versions of Musical Works and Literary Translations
13 Profundity in Instrumental Music