The Fine Art of Repetition: Essays in the Philosophy of Music
- Author: Kivy, Peter
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Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART I: I. Mattheson as philosopher of art
- II. Mainwaring's Handel: its relation to English aesthetics
- III. Charles Burney, music critic
- IV. Kant and the Affektenlehre: what he said, and what I wish he had said
- V. Mozart and monotheism: an essay in spurious aesthetics
- VI. Child Mozart as an aesthetic symbol
- VII. Something I've always wanted to know about Hanslick
- VIII. What was Hanslick denying?
- IX. Charles Darwin on music
- X. Herbert Spencer and a musical dispute
- PART II: XI. The fine art of repetition
- XII. Platonism in music: a kind of defense
- XIII. Platonism in music: another kind of defense
- XIV. Orchestrating platonism
- XV. Opera talk: a philosophical 'phantasie'
- XVI. How did Mozart do it?: living conditions in the world of opera
- XVII. How did Mozart do it?: Replies to my critics
- XVIII. Live performances and dead composers: on the ethics of musical interpretation
- XIX. On the concept of the 'historically authentic' performance
- XX. Paul Robinson's Opera and Ideas
- XXI. From ideology to music: Leonard Meyer's theory of style change
- XXII. Music and liberal education
- XXIII. A new music criticism?
- XXIV. Is music an art?