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      Authenticities: Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance

      Peter Kivy

      In this text on the aesthetics of music, the author presents an argument not for authenticity but for the authenticities of performance, including authenticities of intention, sound, practice and the…

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      Osmin’s Rage: Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama and Text

      Peter Kivy

      The author studies the special problem of opera - how it became both a dramatic and a musical art, and what its underlying aesthetic principles are. He traces its philosophical…

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      Music Alone: Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience

      Peter Kivy

      What makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rewarding? In addressing these questions, Peter Kivy continues his highly regarded…

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      The Fine Art of Repetition: Essays in the Philosophy of Music

      Peter Kivy

      This collection of essays from Peter Kivy span a period of some thirty years and focus on a richly diverse set of issues providing an enjoyable and insightful introduction to…

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      The Fine Art of Repetition: Essays in the Philosophy of Music

      Peter Kivy

      This collection of essays from Peter Kivy span a period of some thirty years and focus on a richly diverse set of issues providing an enjoyable and insightful introduction to…

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      Music Alone: Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience

      Peter Kivy

      What makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rewarding? In addressing these questions, Peter Kivy continues his highly regarded…

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      Authenticities: Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance

      Peter Kivy

      In this text on the aesthetics of music, the author presents an argument not for authenticity but for the authenticities of performance, including authenticities of intention, sound, practice and the…

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      Music, Language, and Cognition: And Other Essays in the Aesthetics of Music

      Peter Kivy

      Music, Language, and Cognition is the third collection of Peter Kivy’s seminal papers in the philosophy of music. In essays which span his earliest work in the field and his…

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      New Essays on Musical Understanding

      Peter Kivy

      Peter Kivy presents a selection of his new and recent writings on the philosophy of music, a subject to which he has for many years been one of the most…

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      The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutchenson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics

      Peter Kivy

      Presents a study of the aesthetic theory of the great eighteenth-century philosopher Francis Hutcheson, and its influence on British aesthetics.

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      The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics

      Peter Kivy

      Reissued with substantial new material, this is a study of the aesthetic theory of the great 18th-century philosopher Frances Hutcheson and its huge influence on British aesthetics. This edition is…

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      Introduction to a Philosophy of Music

      Peter Kivy

      Philosophy of music has flourished in the last 30 years, with great advances made in the understanding of the nature of music and its aesthetics. Peter Kivy now offers his…

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      New Essays on Musical Understanding

      Peter Kivy

      Peter Kivy presents a selection of his new and recent writings on the philosophy of music, exploring such topics as musicology and its history, the nature of musical works, and…

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      The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics

      A survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. It features eighteen freshly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of…

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      The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics

      Presents a survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics. This book features eighteen commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of…

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      Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music

      Peter Kivy (Rutgers University)

      Peter Kivy presents a fascinating critical examination of the two rival ways of understanding instrumental music. He argues against ‘literary’ interpretation in terms of representational or narrative content, and defends…

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      De Gustibus: Arguing About Taste and Why We Do It

      Peter Kivy (Rutgers University)

      Peter Kivy deals with a question that has never been fully addressed by philosophers of art: why do we argue about art? If I think Bach is greater than Beethoven…

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      Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music

      Peter Kivy (Rutgers University)

      Peter Kivy presents a fascinating critical examination of the two rival ways of understanding instrumental music. He argues against ‘literary’ interpretation in terms of representational or narrative content, and defends…

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      Sounding Off: Eleven Essays in the Philosophy of Music

      Peter Kivy (Rutgers University)

      This volume presents a selection of lively essays on philosophy of music by Peter Kivy, the leading expert on the subject. He explores the nature of musical genius; the subject…

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      The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius

      Peter Kivy,Peter KY

      An exploration of the concept of genius and how it came to be symbolized by three composers of the modern era: Handel, Mozart and Beethoven. It delineates the two concepts…

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      Philosophies of Arts: An Essay in Differences

      Peter Kivy (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

      Kivy proposes a new strategy for defining fine art in a study of literature and music.

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      Once Upon a Time: Essays in the Philosophy of Literature

      Peter Kivy,Aaron Meskin

      Kivy raises questions of a philosophical nature about the novel that will be of interest both to the professional philosopher and to the general reader.

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      Once Upon a Time: Essays in the Philosophy of Literature

      Peter Kivy,Aaron Meskin

      Kivy raises questions of a philosophical nature about the novel that will be of interest both to the professional philosopher and to the general reader.

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      Francis Hutcheson: An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design

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      THE SENSE OF BEAUTY: A FIRST APPROXIMATION It is generally acknowledged that during the first half of the eighteenth century a profound change was wrought in the theory of art…

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      Sound Sentiment: An Essay on the Musical Emotions

      Peter Kivy

      Discussing how music possesses expressive properties, this title incorporates the text of The Corded Shell , answering various criticisms.

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      Music, Language, and Cognition: And Other Essays in the Aesthetics of Music

      Peter Kivy (Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey)

      Music, Language, and Cognition is the third collection of Peter Kivy’s seminal papers in the philosophy of music. In essays which span his earliest work in the field and his…

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