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Antithetical Arts
On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music
Peter Kivy
288 pages
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frontispiece
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216x138mm
978-0-19-956280-0
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Hardback
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26 March 2009
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- How do we interpret abstract music?
- Major new work by the pioneer of philosophy of music
- Elegant and entertaining
- Written for readers in both philosophy and classical music
Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of both the literary interpretation of absolute music and musical formalism are laid out. In Part II, specific attempts to put literary interpretations on various works of the absolute music canon are examined and criticized. Finally, in Part III, the question is raised as to what the human significance of absolute music is, if it does not lie in its representational or narrative content. The answer is that, as yet, philosophy has no answer, and that the question should be
considered an important one for philosophers of art to consider, and to try to answer without appeal to representational or narrative content.Readership: Anyone interested in the interpretation of music, including philosophers, music theorists and musicologists, and cultural historians
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Peter Kivy, Rutgers University
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"Antithetical Arts, like Kivy's earlier books, is a model of clarity and shows great historical sensitivity and engagement with the issues under discussion." - Jeanette Bicknell, Mind "clear, resourceful, spirited, and entertaining" - Paul Griffiths, Times Literary Supplement "Kivy's writing style happily shares many of the characteristics of good literature - wit, elegance, clarity, clear narrative development and readability. In short, his book, apart from anything else, is a good read. To the aesthetician, it is also of great philosophical interest, amd places the current debates on musical expression within a historical context." - Elisa Galgut, Philosophical
Quarterly "Kivy's book is written in an extraordinarily clear and lucid style. There is a little surprise, an unexpected or witty observation, a new turn of the argument waiting at every other turn of the page. Furthermore, one might even say that Kivy's prose has a distinctive musical flavor to it... It also has many instructuve historical details on the long debate about how to understand music... Although it is difficult to imagine a narrativist being much impressed by Kivy's arguments, all of them should read this wonderful book. Like music, it can be a source of great pleasure and insight to the reader." - Peter Rinderle, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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Preface
PART I: THE FOUNDING OF FORMALISM
1: First the Music, and then the Words
2: Designs à la Grecque
3: Body and Soul
PART II: THE FORTUNES OF FORMALISM
4: Mood and Music
5: Persona Non Grata
6: Action and Agency
7: Shostakovich's Secret?
PART III: THE FATE OF FORMALISM
8: The Failure of Formalism and the Failure of its Foes
9: Attention, Ritual, and the Additive Strategy
10: Musical Morality
11: Empty Pleasure to the Ear
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