1st Edition
Experiencing of Musical Sound A Prelude to a Phenomenology of Music
By F. J. Smith
Copyright 1979
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1979. This book represents the work done by its author to begin to lay the ground musically and philosophically for enormous tasks that still remain to be done and may require a team of researchers in various fields relating to experiential phenomena. Coming from a background of musicological studies as well as active musical performance, the author's orientation is different... Read more
Introduction
1 Prelude to a Phenomenology of Music
2 A Critique of Visual Metaphor in Philosophy and Music
3 Working Propositions in Sound: a Baroque Suite
4 Musical Sound, a Model for Husserlian Time-Consciousness
5 Cartesian Theory and Musical Science
6 Musicology in Need of New Horizons
7 A Phenomenology of Musical Esthetics: The Continuing Redefinition
8 Esthetic Re-education: the Experiencing of Musical Sound
9 Implications of Phenomenology for Music Education
10 Phenomenological Theme with Dialectical Variation
Postscript: The “End” of Philosophy: the Muser and Music-Maker
Acknowledgments
Biography
J. F. Smith
