Intro; Preface; Contents; Editors and Contributors; Interrogating Essence; 1 Essence or Context?; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Pleasure and Pain; 1.3 Sound and Sense and Value; 1.4 Reaching the Essence (of the Dispute); 1.5 Time and Space; 1.6 Conclusions; References; 2 Music, Essence and Context; 2.1 Introduction. Essence and Context; 2.2 Artifacts and Functions; 2.3 Musical-Beauty?; 2.4 Non-absolute Music; 2.5 Formalism and Politics; 2.6 Nature/Culture?; 2.7 Coda; Appendix; References; 3 Essence Facilitating Plurality: Theorizing Art with Schelling; 3.1 Introduction
3.2 Disappearance and Persistence of Essence3.3 From Historical Aesthetics to a Philosophy of Art; 3.4 Construction of Essence as Relation; 3.5 Theorizing the Reality and Significance of Art; 3.6 Conclusions; References; 4 Aristotle Meets Schumann: Essence and Geist; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Aristotle on Being and Essence; 4.3 Psuchē and Geist as Essence; 4.4 Plotinus and the Indefinable; 4.5 Conclusions; References; 5 Musical Images in the Tanakh: Between Their Essence, Context and Interpretation; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Essence-Ancient Hebrew Culture as the Culture of Voice and Sound
5.3 Multi-layered Context-Defining Versatile Essence of Semantics of Musical Phenomena5.4 Expansion or Alteration of Essence of Images Through Translations/Interpretations; 5.5 Conclusions; References; 6 Hsi Kang's Reflection on the Essence of Music: "Hesheng"; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Ideal of "He" in Confucian Moral Education Through Music; 6.3 Hsi Kang's Reflection on Confucian Moral Education Through Music; 6.4 The Gains and Losses of Hsi Kang's Reflection on the Essence of Music; 6.4.1 "hesheng"; 6.5 Conclusions; References; Genesis and Structure
7 Deleuze, Ruyer, and Musical Morphogenesis7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Natura musicans: Biology and Music; 7.3 Raymond Ruyer's Melodic Morphogenesis; 7.4 Chimeric Subjectivities, or the Non-human Art; 7.5 Conclusions; References; 8 The Biological Constraints on Musical Structure as the Foundations of Musical Essence; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Musical Structure as a Mental Phenomenon; 8.3 The Biological Roots of Music; 8.4 Musical Essence as a Part of Human Nature; 8.5 Conclusions; References; 9 'In-Between' the Autonomous and Contingent Worlds of Music; 9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Autonomous and Contingent Worlds of Music9.3 'In-Between'. When and How Does Music 'Do' Things?; 9.4 The Musicological Approach to the Prelude La Puerta Del Vino; 9.5 Conclusions; References; 10 Formulating the Essence All Together; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Introducing the Problem; 10.3 A Cognitively Realistic Approach to Heterophony; 10.4 A Cognitive Translation; 10.5 The Orality Factor; 10.6 Hermeneutics in the Absence of a Text; 10.7 Heterophony as a Forum; 10.8 Dealing (Politically) with Social Heterophony: The Case of the Turkish Republic; 10.9 Conclusions; References
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This book provides a new approach to the intersections between music and philosophy. It features articles that rethink the concepts of musical work and performance from ontological and epistemological perspectives and discuss issues of performing practices that involve the performer?s and listener?s perceptions. 0In philosophy, the notion of essence has enjoyed a renaissance. However, in the humanities in general, it is still viewed with suspicion. This collection examines the ideas of essence and context as they apply to music. A common concern when thinking of music in terms of essence is the plurality of music. There is also the worry that thinking in terms of essence might be an overly conservative way of imposing fixity on something that evolves. Some contend that we must take into account the varying historical and cultural contexts of music, and that the idea of an essence of music is therefore a fantasy. 0This book puts forward an innovative approach that effectively addresses these concerns. It shows that it is, in fact, possible to find commonalities among the many kinds of music. The coverage combines philosophical and musicological approaches with bioethics, biology, linguistics, communication theory, phenomenology, and cognitive science. The respective chapters, written by leading musicologists and philosophers, reconsider the fundamental essentialist and contextualist approaches to music creation and experience in light of twenty-first century paradigm shifts in music philosophy.