Sound Sentiment: An Essay on the Musical Emotions (The Arts And Their Philosophie) - Softcover

Kivy, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877226776 ISBN 13: 9780877226772

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Kivy continues his discussion from The Corded Shell of how music possesses expressive properties

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Review

"Kivy's is a lucid and eminently readable account, interesting both historically and conceptually, of musical expressiveness--flexible in that it gives scope to both the contour and the convention models, the account becoming more convincing as one reads, as the theory is applied to more and more specific passages of music, and as one after another bit of irrelevancy or pseudo-mysticism is progressively shucked off." --John Hospers, Journal of Aesthetic Education "The Corded Shell, in its clarity, judiciousness, and breadth, will clearly take its place as a major work on musical expression. Those who seek to chart the murky waters of musical aesthetics are permanently in Kivy's debt." --Jerrold Levinson, Canadian Philosophical Review "Informed, lucid, and witty, Professor Kivy's argument brings enlightened solace to the musical amateur and tempers the harsh stance of the musical purist. A splendid contribution to the aesthetics of music." --Virginia Quarterly Review

From the Author

Peter Kivy is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and Associate Editor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. He received the Deems Taylor Award of ASCAP for The Corded Shell.

Edition details

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0877226776
• ISBN 13: 9780877226772
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304