Aesthetics of Music : Musicological Perspectives
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 29330685
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9780203136348
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415699099
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This is a peer-reviewed collection of 11 essays. It was conceived by the editor, Downes, who also wrote a substantial introduction (12,600 words) and a chapter ‘Beautiful and Sublime’ (12,900 words). Downes began to develop the project during his time on the leadership team of the Royal Musical Association’s Music and Philosophy Group (2013-14). The aim of the collection is to redirect current thinking on musical aesthetics and to stimulate future development in two principal ways: first by bringing discussion of aesthetic issues closer to the musical ‘text’, to distinguish it from the philosophy of aesthetics, which has been the main driver of thinking about aesthetics in the recent past; and second by incorporating recent criticism (indeed sometimes rejection) of aesthetics from across artistic disciplines (including work in literary theory and art criticism) to make a new case for the contemporary relevance of aesthetics. The topics were selected by the editor to allow both the reconsideration of issues long central to musical aesthetics (value, absolute music, programmaticism, form, beauty, the sublime, classicism, romanticism, the avant garde) and to bring aesthetics more prominently into debates concerning dialectics, irony, jazz, music and the moving image, narrative, propaganda, and virtuosity. The line-up of contributors invited by the editor is Anglo-American, including leading figures in the field (such as Hepokoski, Samson, Horton, Grey, Johnson) and those developing their profile in this area (for example, Chapin, Pederson, Reyland, Barham). The editor worked closely with each contributor to deliver substantial, richly musically exemplified essays (each c.12,000 words) which survey the current thinking and offer new arguments and perspectives.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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