Musical Meaning and Expression

By Stephen Davies
432 pages

Contributors:: Stephen Davies
Includes content by:: Minimalist Composers
Steve Reich
Philip Glass
Javanese Gamelan
Japanese Kabuki
Mo-Zart
Publisher:: Cornell University Press
Place of publication:: Ithaca, NY
Publication year:: 1994
Subjects:: Music--Philosophy And Aesthetics
Music--Psychological Aspects

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We talk not only of enjoying music, but of understanding it. Music is often taken to have expressive import--and in that sense to have meaning. But what does music mean, and how does it mean?Stephen Davies addresses these questions in this sophisticated and knowledgeable overview of current theories in the philosophy of music. Reviewing and criticizing the aesthetic positions of recent years, he offers a spirited explanation of his own position.

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