Platonism, Music and the Listener's Share

by Christopher Norris

What is a musical work? What are its identity-conditions and the standards (if any) that they set for a competent, intelligent, and musically perceptive act of performance or audition? Should the work-concept henceforth be dissolved as some New Musicologists would have it into the various, ever-changing socio-cultural or ideological contexts that make up its reception-history to date? Can music be thought of as possessing certain attributes, structural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826491782
• ISBN13: 9780826491787
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"