The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy

Tomás McAuley is Assistant Professor of Music and Ad Astra Fellow at University College Dublin. Previously, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Cambridge (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship) and Indiana University, and from 2010 to 2018 served as Founding Chair of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group. He is author of The Music of Philosophy: German Idealism and Musical Thought, from Kant to Schelling, forthcoming with Oxford University Press.Nanette Nielsen is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo. She joined Oslo in January 2015, after having been Associate Professor and Lecturer at the University of Nottingham (2009-15) and at the University of East Anglia (2005-9). Nielsen works on music and philosophy, especially intersections between ethics and aesthetics, on film music, opera and music criticism in the Weimar republic, and on Scandinavian music and culture. Her publications include the co-written book Music and Ethics (2012), the article 'Ernst Krenek's "problem of freedom" in Jonny spielt auf' (Twentieth-Century Music, 2013) - for which she won the 2014 Jerome Roche Prize - and the monograph Paul Bekker's Musical Ethics (2017).Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Maryland and Past President of the American Society for Aesthetics, 2001-2003. He is the author of five collections of essays, Music, Art, and Metaphysics (1990, 2nd ed. 2010), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), Contemplating Art (2006), Musical Concerns (2015), and Aesthetic Pursuits (2016), plus a monograph, Music in the Moment (1998). Levinson is also editor of Aesthetics and Ethics (1998), The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (2003), and Suffering Art Gladly (2013), as well as co-editor of Aesthetic Concepts (2001) and Art and Pornography (2012).Ariana Phillips-Hutton is a Visiting Lecturer in Music at the University of Cambridge. Her research centres on the philosophy, performance, and politics of contemporary music, with specialisations in memory, violence, and conflict transformation. Recent publications include journal articles in Twentieth-Century Music, Popular Music, and the Journal of the British Academy, and she is also the author of Music Transforming Conflict (2020).

• IntroductionTomás McAuley, Nanette Nielsen, and Jerrold Levinson Part 1: Mapping the Field 1. Historical Musicology and PhilosophyJulian Johnson 2. Music Theory and PhilosophyAlexander Rehding 3. Ethnomusicology and PhilosophyEllen Koskoff 4. Analytic Philosophy of Music David Davies 5. Continental Philosophy of MusicChristopher Norris Part 2: History 6. Ancient GreeceArmand D'Angour 7. The Middle AgesElizabeth Eva Leach 8. The Early Modern PeriodBruce R. Smith 9. The EnlightenmentTomás McAuley 10. The Nineteenth CenturyAndreas Dorschel 11. The Twentieth CenturyTamara Levitz Part 3: Philosophical Traditions and Practices 12. EpistemologiesIan Cross and Elizabeth Tolbert 13. EthicsAriana Phillips-Hutton and Nanette Nielsen 14. PhenomenologySimon Høffding 15. OntologyCharles O. Nussbaum 16. TheologyJeremy Begbie 17. Philosophy of LanguageHanne Appelqvist 18. HermeneuticsLawrence Kramer 19. DeconstructionNaomi Waltham-Smith 20. PosthumanismGary Tomlinson Part 4: Musical Traditions and Practices 21. ImprovisationBruce Ellis Benson 22. CompositionJoseph Dubiel 23. PerformancePaul Thom 24. ListeningMarcel Cobussen 25. Vocal musicFreya Jarman 26. Electronic musicJoanna Demers 27. Popular musicTheodore Gracyk 28. BlacksoundMatthew D. Morrison 29. JazzGarry L. Hagberg 30. OperaMichael Fend Part 5: Key Concepts 31. Absolute MusicSarah Collins 32. ConsciousnessDavid Clarke 33. EvolutionStephen Davies 34. ExpressionMark Evan Bonds 35. GenderJ.P.E. Harper-Scott 36. The Ineffable (and Beyond)Carolyn Abbate & Michael Gallope 37. Meaning and AutonomyMax Paddison 38. Meaning and ScepticismPaul Boghossian 39. MercyMartha C. Nussbaum 40. NatureStephen Decatur Smith 41. Making SenseAndrew Bowie 42. SocietyMichael Gallope 43. SpaceAndrew Kania 44. TimeChristopher Hasty Part 6: Collisions and Collaborations 45. AuthenticityJulian Dodd and John Irving 46. BeautyNick Zangwill and Stephen Hinton 47. EmotionMichael Spitzer and Derek Matravers 48. EnchantmentScott Burnham and Gordon Graham 49. ExpectationsJenny Judge and Bence Nanay 50. Galant MusicJean-Luc Nancy, trans. Naomi Waltham-Smith & Jerrold Levinson, with an introduction by Naomi Waltham-Smith 51a. PerceptionChristopher Peacocke 51b. Response to Christopher Peacocke: PerceptionNicholas Cook 52a. Subjectivities, Susan McClary 52b. Response to Susan McClary: SubjectivitiesJeanette Bicknell