Expression as Success: The Psychological Reality of Musical Performance

• Authors: van Gerwen R.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Roger Scruton's ontology of sound is found wanting on two counts. Scruton removes from music the importance of the performer's manipulating of his instrument. This misconceives the phenomenology of hearing and, as a consequence, impoverishes our understanding of music. The author of the article argues that the musician's manipulations can be heard in the music; and, in a discussion of notions developed by Richard Wollheim and Jerrold Levinson, that these manipulations have psychological reality, and that it is this psychological reality which brings to life the sui generis musical persona of musical expressiveness.

Keywords

EN

EXPRESSION (MUSICAL); MUSIC; SCRUTON R.

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 24-40
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

van Gerwen R.

• R. van Gerwen, Dept. of Philosophy, Utrecht University, P.O.Box 80.126, 3508 TC Utrecht,the Netherlands,

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08CZAAAA04999504