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Works of music : an essay in ontology /

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In this original and iconoclastic book, Julian Dodd argues for what he terms 'the simple view' of the ontological nature of works of pure, instrumental music. According to this view such works are types whose tokens are performances and playings, and as types they belong to the category of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dodd, Julian
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Musique > Philosophie et esthétique.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Appreciation.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The type/token theory introduced
  • Motivating the type/token theory : repeatability
  • Nominalist approaches to the ontology of music
  • Musical anti-realism
  • The type/token theory elaborated
  • Types I : abstract, unstructured, unchanging
  • Types introduced and nominalism repelled
  • Types as abstracta
  • Types as unstructured entities
  • Types as fixed and unchanging
  • Types II : platonism
  • Introduction : eternal existence and timelessness
  • Types and properties
  • The eternal existence of properties reconsidered
  • Types and patterns
  • Defending the type/token theory I
  • Unstructuredness and analogical predication
  • Musical works as fixed and unchanging
  • Abstractness and audibility (again)
  • Works and interpretations
  • Conclusion and resumé
  • Defending the type/token theory II : musical platonism
  • Platonism it is : replies to Anderson and Levinson
  • The existence conditions of works of music
  • Composition as creative discovery
  • The nature of the compositional process : replies to objections
  • Composition and aesthetic appraisal : a reply to Levinson
  • Composition and aesthetic appraisal : understanding, interpretation, and correctness
  • Musical works as continuants : a theory rejected
  • A theory introduced
  • Explicating and motivating the continuant view
  • The continuant view and repeatability
  • Further objections to the continuant view
  • Musical works as compositional actions : a critique
  • Currie's action-type hypothesis
  • Davies's performance theory
  • Sonicism I : against instrumentalism
  • Sonicism introduced
  • Sonicism motivated : moderate empiricism
  • Instrumentation : timbral sonicism introduced
  • Scores
  • Instrumentation, artistic properties, and aesthetic content
  • Levinson's rejoinder
  • Sonicism II : against contextualism
  • Introduction : formulating contextualism
  • Contextualist ontological proposals
  • Levinson's doppelgänger thought-experiments
  • Artistic, representational, and object-directed expressive properties
  • Aesthetic and non-object-directed expressive properties
  • Conclusion : the place of context.