Musical Meaning and Expression

by Stephen Davies and Stephen Davies

Book Overview

We talk not only of enjoying music, but of understanding it. Music is often taken to have expressive import--and in that sense to have meaning. But what does music mean, and how does it mean?

Stephen Davies addresses these questions in this sophisticated and knowledgeable overview of current theories in the philosophy of music. Reviewing and criticizing the aesthetic positions of recent years, he offers a spirited explanation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801429307
• ISBN13: 9780801429309
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher