Virtue or Virtuosity?: Explorations in the Ethics of Musical Performance

by Jane O'Dea

Drawing upon the past two decades of burgeoning literature in philosophy of music, this study offers a comprehensive, critical analysis of what is entailed in performance interpretation. It argues that integrity and other virtues offset the harm that virtuosity and rigid historical authenticity can impose on the perceptive judgment required of excellent musical interpretation. Proposed are challenging and provocative reassessments of the appropriate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031331568X
• ISBN13: 9780313315688
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"