To call musical recordings “countless” may not be literally accurate, but it expresses the
overwhelming abundance of the legacy of recorded sound, even in the limited field of …

To call a book a philosophy of music is to make a bold claim (or so it would strike a
philosopher)-a claim that even the most profound and systematic writers on music have very …

Music may never be fully understood. An important reason for this is that music, since it is art,
often strives for the new, the previously unknown, the unconventional. Some musical …

Representing Stephen Davies's best shorter writings, these essays outline developments
within the philosophy of music over the last two decades, and summarize the state of play at …

This book grew out of a fascination with music, a fascination which was deepened and
enriched by the challenge of trying to arrive at a philosophical understanding of music. If it …

This pioneering study of the ontology of mu sic is part summary, part historical explora tion,
and part assertion of the broad implica tions of the concept of the musical work. Goehr's" …

The philosophy of mind has in important ways not done justice to the range of phenomena
presented by music. This sin of omission is all the more striking in that contemporary …

The starting point for our reflections upon the musical work will be the unsystematized
convictions that we encounter in daily life in our communion with musical works before we …

The term 'musicology'has been defined in many different ways. In 1955, the American
Musicological Society described it as 'a field of knowledge having as its object the …

If we look for the first figure to fulfil concurrently the roles of philosopher and music theorist,
we can do worse than to point to Aristoxenus of Tarentum in third-century Greece bce. A …