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De Gustibus
Arguing About Taste and Why We Do It
Av Peter Kivy
E-bok, 2015
770 kr
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In De Gustibus Peter Kivy deals with a question that has never been fully addressed by philosophers of art: why do we argue about art? We argue about the ''facts'' of the world either to influence people''s behaviour or simply to get them to see what we take to be the truth about the world. We …
De Gustibus
Arguing About Taste and Why We Do It
Av Peter Kivy
E-bok, 2015
770 kr
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In De Gustibus Peter Kivy deals with a question that has never been fully addressed by philosophers of art: why do we argue about art? We argue about the ''facts'' of the world either to influence people''s behaviour or simply to get them to see what we take to be the truth about the world. We …
Music, Language, and Cognition
And Other Essays in the Aesthetics of Music
Av Peter Kivy
E-bok, 2007
538 kr
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Music, Language, and Cognition is the third collection of Peter Kivy''s seminal papers in the philosophy of music. In essays which span his earliest work in the field and his more recent contributions to journals, anthologies, and conference proceedings, Kivy considers the origin of music, the …
Antithetical Arts
On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music
Av Peter Kivy
E-bok, 2009
415 kr
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Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of both the literary interpretation of absolute music and musical formalism are laid out. In Part II, specific attempts to …
Antithetical Arts
On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music
Av Peter Kivy
E-bok, 2011
424 kr
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Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of both the literary interpretation of absolute music and musical formalism are laid out. In Part II, specific attempts to …
Sounding Off
Eleven Essays in the Philosophy of Music
Av Peter Kivy
E-bok, 2012
1137 kr
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Sounding Off brings together a selection of essays on philosophy of music written by Peter Kivy--the leading expert on the subject. The essays fall into four groups, corresponding to Kivy''s major interests. Part I contains two essays on the nature of musical genius. In Part II, three essays take …
New Essays on Musical Understanding
Av Peter Kivy
Inbunden, 2001
1005 kr
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Peter Kivy presents a selection of his new and recent writings on the philosophy of music, a subject to which he has for many years been one of the most eminent contributors. In his distinctively elegant and informal style, Kivy explores such topics as musicology and its history, the nature of …
De Gustibus
Arguing About Taste and Why We Do It
Av Peter Kivy
Inbunden, 2015
1206 kr
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In De Gustibus Peter Kivy deals with a question that has never been fully addressed by philosophers of art: why do we argue about art? We argue about the 'facts' of the world either to influence people's behaviour or simply to get them to see what we take to be the truth about the world. We argue …
Music, Language, and Cognition
And Other Essays in the Aesthetics of Music
Av Peter Kivy
Häftad, 2007
927 kr
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Music, Language, and Cognition is the third collection of Peter Kivy's seminal papers in the philosophy of music. In essays which span his earliest work in the field and his more recent contributions to journals, anthologies, and conference proceedings, Kivy considers the origin of music, the …
Music, Language, and Cognition
And Other Essays in the Aesthetics of Music
Av Peter Kivy
Inbunden, 2007
2031 kr
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Music, Language, and Cognition is the third collection of Peter Kivy's seminal papers in the philosophy of music. In essays which span his earliest work in the field and his more recent contributions to journals, anthologies, and conference proceedings, Kivy considers the origin of music, the …
New Essays on Musical Understanding
Av Peter Kivy
Häftad, 2001
895 kr
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Peter Kivy presents a selection of his new and recent writings on the philosophy of music, a subject to which he has for many years been one of the most eminent contributors. In his distinctively elegant and informal style, Kivy explores such topics as musicology and its history, the nature of …
The Seventh Sense
Francis Hutchenson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics
Av Peter Kivy
Häftad, 2003
1092 kr
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The Seventh Sense is the definitive study of the aesthetic theory of the great eighteenth-century philosopher Francis Hutcheson, arguably the founder of the modern discipline of aesthetics, and one of the most important figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. This new edition brings Peter Kivy's …
Antithetical Arts
On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music
Av Peter Kivy
Inbunden, 2009
1591 kr
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Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of both the literary interpretation of absolute music and musical formalism are laid out. In Part II, specific attempts to …
Antithetical Arts
On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music
Av Peter Kivy
Häftad, 2011
764 kr
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Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of both the literary interpretation of absolute music and musical formalism are laid out. In Part II, specific attempts to …
Sounding Off
Eleven Essays in the Philosophy of Music
Av Peter Kivy
Inbunden, 2012
1793 kr
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Sounding Off brings together a selection of essays on philosophy of music written by Peter Kivy--the leading expert on the subject. The essays fall into four groups, corresponding to Kivy's major interests. Part I contains two essays on the nature of musical genius. In Part II, three essays take up …
Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics
Av Peter Kivy
E-bok, 2008
1808 kr
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The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of art such as literature, movies, and …
Performance of Reading
An Essay in the Philosophy of Literature
Av Peter Kivy
E-bok, 2008
1293 kr
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The Performance of Reading argues that there are distinct analogies between "silent" reading and artistic performance, and so fashions the new role of the reader as performer. An original and insightful exploration of the act of reading by the leading scholar in the field. Discusses the history of …
The Fine Art of Repetition
Essays in the Philosophy of Music
Av Peter Kivy
Inbunden, 1993
1449 kr
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Peter Kivy is the author of many books on the history of art and, in particular, the aesthetics of music. This collection of essays spans a period of some thirty years and focuses on a richly diverse set of issues: the biological origins of music, the role of music in the liberal education, the …
The Fine Art of Repetition
Essays in the Philosophy of Music
Av Peter Kivy
Häftad, 1993
732 kr
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Peter Kivy is the author of many books on the history of art and, in particular, the aesthetics of music. This collection of essays spans a period of some thirty years and focuses on a richly diverse set of issues: the biological origins of music, the role of music in the liberal education, the …
Philosophies of Arts
An Essay in Differences
Av Peter Kivy
Häftad, 1997
813 kr
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Since the beginning of the eighteenth century the philosophy of art has been engaged on the project of trying to find out what the fine arts have in common and, thus, how they might be defined. Peter Kivy's purpose in this accessible and lucid book is to trace the history of that enterprise and …
Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics
Av Kivy, Peter Kivy
Inbunden, 2003
1554 kr
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The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available.The volume features eighteen newly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of art such as literature, movies, and …
Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics
Av Kivy, Peter Kivy
Häftad, 2003
554 kr
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The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of art such as literature, movies, and …
Music Alone
Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience
Av Peter Kivy
Inbunden, 1990
715 kr
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What makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rewarding? In addressing these questions, Peter Kivy continues his highly regarded exploration of the philosophy of musical aesthetics. He considers here what he believes to be the …
Authenticities
Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance
Av Peter Kivy
Inbunden, 1998
1698 kr
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How are we to assess the current popularity of period instruments and early-music performance? For musicians and audiences alike, the "historical authenticity" movement has increasingly influenced the performance of classical music. It has given us, claims Peter Kivy, "new and rewarding ways of …
Authenticities
Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance
Av Peter Kivy
Häftad, 1998
403 kr
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How are we to assess the current popularity of period instruments and early-music performance? For musicians and audiences alike, the "historical authenticity" movement has increasingly influenced the performance of classical music. It has given us, claims Peter Kivy, "new and rewarding ways of …
Osmin's Rage
Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and Text
Av Peter Kivy
Häftad, 1999
389 kr
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In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical—as opposed to a dramatic—necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart's Idomeneo is properly …
Music Alone
Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience
Av Peter Kivy
Häftad, 1991
417 kr
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What makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rewarding? In addressing these questions, Peter Kivy continues his highly regarded exploration of the philosophy of musical aesthetics. He considers here what he believes to be the …
Sound Sentiment
Av Peter Kivy
Häftad, 1989
412 kr
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Kivy continues his discussion from The Corded Shell of how music possesses expressive properties
Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics
Av Peter Kivy
E-bok, 2009
635 kr
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The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of art such as literature, movies, and …
Once-Told Tales
An Essay in Literary Aesthetics
Av Peter Kivy
E-bok, 2011
472 kr
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Drawing comparisons with other art forms, this book examines the role of aesthetic features in silent reading, such as narrative structure, and the core experience of reading a novel as a story rather than a scholarly exercise. Focuses on the experience of the art form known as the novel Uses the …
