| Contents |
General introduction: what is a naturalistic philosophical theory of musical representation? -- The musical affordance: three varieties of musical representation -- The musical utterance: how music means -- The musical work -- From musical representation to musical emotion -- Nausea and contingency: musical emotion and religious emotion. |
| Abstract |
How human musical experience emerges from the audition of organized tones is a riddle of long standing. This book offers a philosophical naturalist's solution, with the author founding his naturalistic theory of musical representation on the collusion between the physics of sound and the organization of the human mind-brain. He argues that important varieties of experience afforded by Western tonal art music since 1650 arise through the feeling of tone, the sense of movement in musical space, cognition, emotional arousal, and the engagement, by way of specific emotional responses, of deeply rooted human ideals. |
| General note | "A Bradford book." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-374) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007000510 |
| ISBN | 9780262140966 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0262140969 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
