ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over fifty entries by an international team of contributors are organised into six clear sections:

  • general issues
  • emotion
  • history
  • figures
  • kinds of music
  • music, philosophy and related disciplines

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, music and musicology.

part |198 pages

General Issues

chapter |11 pages

Definition

chapter |14 pages

Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony

chapter |10 pages

Ontology

chapter |11 pages

Medium

chapter |11 pages

Improvisation

chapter |10 pages

Notations

chapter |10 pages

Authentic Performance Practice

chapter |12 pages

Music and Language

chapter |10 pages

Music and Imagination

chapter |11 pages

Understanding Music

chapter |10 pages

Style

chapter |11 pages

Aesthetic Properties

chapter |10 pages

Value

chapter |11 pages

Evaluating Music

chapter |11 pages

Appropriation and Hybridity

chapter |12 pages

Instrumental Technology

part |44 pages

Emotion

chapter |11 pages

Expression Theories

chapter |11 pages

Arousal Theories

chapter |10 pages

Resemblance Theories

chapter |10 pages

Music's Arousal of Emotions

part |98 pages

Figures

chapter |10 pages

Plato

chapter |11 pages

Rousseau

chapter |11 pages

Kant

chapter |11 pages

Schopenhauer

chapter |10 pages

Nietzsche

chapter |11 pages

Hanslick

chapter |9 pages

Gurney

chapter |11 pages

Wagner

chapter |12 pages

Adorno

part |89 pages

Kinds of Music

chapter |10 pages

Popular Music

chapter |10 pages

Rock

chapter |11 pages

Jazz

chapter |9 pages

Song

chapter |10 pages

Opera

chapter |12 pages

Music and Dance

part |132 pages

Music, Philosophy, and Related Disciplines

chapter |11 pages

Musicology

chapter |11 pages

Music Theory and Philosophy

chapter |8 pages

Composition

chapter |10 pages

Analysis

chapter |11 pages

Ethnomusicology

chapter |11 pages

Music and Politics

chapter |12 pages

Music and Gender

chapter |11 pages

Phenomenology of Music

chapter |11 pages

Psychology of Music

chapter |10 pages

Music Education