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Author Norris, Christopher, 1947-

Title Platonism, music and the listener's share / Christopher Norris.

Publication Info. London : Continuum, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (202 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Continuum studies in philosophy
Continuum studies in philosophy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction and Acknowledgements; 1 Platonism, Music and the 'Listener's Share'; 2 On Knowing What We Like: 'Best Opinion' and Evaluative Warrant; 3 What's In a Work? Music, Ontology and the 'Deconstructive Turn'; 4 Between Phenomenology and Structuralism: Alternative Resources for Music Theory; 5 Music, Pleasure and the Claims of Analysis; Notes; Index of Names.
Summary What is a musical work? What are its identity-conditions and the standards (if any) that they set for a competent, intelligent, and musically perceptive act of performance or audition? Should the work-concept henceforth be dissolved as some New Musicologists would have it into the various, ever-changing socio-cultural or ideological contexts that make up its reception-history to date? Can music be thought of as possessing certain attributes, structural features, or intrinsically valuable qualities that are response-transcendent, i.e., that might always elude or surpass the best state of (curre.
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Subject Plato -- Criticism and interpretation.
Plato.
Criticism and interpretation.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Norris, Christopher, 1947- Platonism, music and the listener's share. London : Continuum, 2006 (DLC) 2007271456
ISBN 9781847144386 (electronic book)
1847144381 (electronic book)
9780826491787
0826491782