Music and Conceptualization
Music and Conceptualization
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This book is a philosophical study of the relations between hearing and thinking about music. The central problem it addresses is: how is it possible to talk about what a listener perceives in terms that the listener does not recognize? By applying the concepts and techniques of analytic philosophy, the author explores the ways in which musical hearing may be described as nonconceptual, and how such mental representation contrasts with conceptual thought.
- DeBellis is both a musicologist and a philosopher
- The book is truly interdisciplinary; it spans the fields of philosophy of mind, musicology and cognitive science
Product details
October 1995Hardback
9780521403313
176 pages
235 × 160 × 17 mm
0.405kg
25 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: hearing ascriptions
- 2. Musical hearing as weakly nonconceptual
- 3. Musical Hearing as Strongly Nonconceptual
- 4. Is There an Observation-Theory Distinction in Music?
- 5. Theoretically Informed Listening
- 6. Conceptions of musical structure
- Works cited
- Index.
