Being True to Works of Music - Hardcover

Dodd, Julian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198859481 ISBN 13: 9780198859482

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2020

Synopsis

Being True to Works of Music explores the varieties of authenticity involved in our practice of performing works of Western classical music. Its key argument is that the familiar 'authenticity debate' about the performance of such works has tended to focus on a side issue. While much has been written about the desirability (or otherwise) of historical authenticity -- roughly, performing works as they would have been performed, under ideal conditions, in the era in which they were composed -- the most fundamental norm governing our practice of work performance is, in fact, another kind of kind of truthfulness to the work altogether. This is interpretive authenticity: being faithful to the performed work by virtue of evincing a profound, far-reaching, or sophisticated understanding of it. As such, performers are justified, on occasion, in sacrificing some score compliance for the sake of making their performance more interpretively authentic.

Written in a clear, engaging style with discussion of musical examples throughout, this book will be of great interest to both philosophers of music and musicologists.

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About the Author

Julian Dodd is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester. He has published too books, An Identity Theory of Truth (Palgrave, 2000) and Works of Music: An Essay in Ontology (Oxford University Press, 2007). His recent work has been predominantly in the philosophy of music but he maintains an interest in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and Wittgenstein.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198859481
• ISBN 13: 9780198859482
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208