The imaginary museum of musical works : an essay in the philosophy of music /

Main Author: Goehr, Lydia
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2007.
Edition:Rev. ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A nominalist theory of musical works
  • 2. A Platonist theory of musical works
  • 3. The limits of analysis and the need for history
  • 4. The central claim
  • 5. Musical meaning : from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
  • 6. Musical meaning : romantic transcendence and the separability principle
  • 7. Musical production without the work-concept
  • 8. After 1800 : the Beethoven paradigm
  • 9. Werktreue : confirmation and challenge in contemporary movements.