Musical Understandings and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Music

Musical Understandings presents an engaging collection of essays on the philosophy of music, written by Stephen Davies�one of the most distinguished philosophers in the field.\n\nHe explores a range of topics in the philosophy of music, including how music expresses emotion and what is distinctive to the listener's response to this expressiveness; the modes of perception and understanding that can be expected of skilled listeners, performers, analysts, and composers and the various manners in which these understandings can be manifest; the manner in which musical works exist and their relation to their instances or performances; and musical profundity. As well as reviewing the work of philosophers of music, a number of the chapters both draw on and critically reflect on current work by psychologists concerning music. The collection includes new material, a number of adapted articles which allow for a more comprehensive, unified treatment of the issues at stake, and work published in English for the first time.Musical Understandings: and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Music is written by Stephen Davies and published by OUP Oxford. ISBNs for Musical Understandings are 9780191619458, 0191619450 and the print ISBNs are 9780199608775, 0199608776.