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Music and Humanism : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198238850 : 0198238851 : 10 Aug 2000 : Robert Sharpe examines fundamental questions about our understanding and appreciation of music, towards a reassessment of the conception of music that has been dominant in Western culture. He focuses on the problem of expression in music, and on the role of pleasure in aesthetic judgement.Read More

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    Robert Sharpe examines the humanist conception of music as a language--as expressive and intelligible--which has been a dominant theory in Western culture. He argues against the view that music is expressive by causing certain states in us. Rather, he contends that our beliefs about music are integral to our appreciation of it. Differences in musical taste are then not just irresolvable differences in sensitivity, but the result of variations in circumstance and upbringing, of associations and ideology.

  • 0198238851
  • 9780198238850
  • R. A. Sharpe
  • 8 June 2000
  • Clarendon Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 240
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