Experiencing of Musical Sound: A Prelude to a Phenomenology of Music

by F. J. Smith

Overview

First Published in 1979. This book represents the work done by its author to begin to lay the ground musically and philosophically for enormous tasks that still remain to be done and may require a team of researchers in various fields relating to experiential phenomena. Coming from a background of musicological studies as well as active musical performance, the author's orientation is different from that of the professional philosopher as such, who is apt to understand sound phenomena in more generalized manner rather than addressing himself to specifics in music and music theory. These essays trace the path taken by the author in the last years and are studies that were a necessary prelude to a systematic work on the philosophy of musical sound, a work that is in preparation. Most important has been the attempt to show the qualitative steps taken from Helmholtz through German and French phenomenology to the beginnings of a dialectic of musical sound.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136754807
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/04/2019
Series:	Musicology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	623 KB

About the Author

J. F. Smith

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Lighting Up the Cave: Progressivism and the Ghost of Plato 3. Recognizing Ourselves: Hegel and the Master/Slave Struggle in Education 4. Zarathustra's Education: Nietzsche and Postmodern Progressivism 5. A Cyborg's Education: Heidegger and Eco-Progressivism 6. Leaving Safe Harbors Notes Index