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Sound Sentiment
Kivy
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Description for Sound Sentiment
Paperback. Discussing how music possesses expressive properties, this title incorporates the text of "The Corded Shell", answering various criticisms. Series: The Arts & Their Philosophies S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 29. Weight in Grams: 444.
"The Corded Shell: Reflections on Musical Expression", published in 1980 and now out of print, was concerned with the question of how music comes to have the emotional properties that have been perceived in it and ascribed to it since antiquity. In that book, Peter Kivy argued that music possesses expressive properties, not as powers to arouse emotions in us but, rather, as perceived qualities of the music itself. In "Sound Sentiment", he augments his previous work with four entirely new chapters. Incorporating the complete, corrected text of "The Corded Shell", Kivy brings his earlier arguments up to date in ... Read more
"The Corded Shell: Reflections on Musical Expression", published in 1980 and now out of print, was concerned with the question of how music comes to have the emotional properties that have been perceived in it and ascribed to it since antiquity. In that book, Peter Kivy argued that music possesses expressive properties, not as powers to arouse emotions in us but, rather, as perceived qualities of the music itself. In "Sound Sentiment", he augments his previous work with four entirely new chapters. Incorporating the complete, corrected text of "The Corded Shell", Kivy brings his earlier arguments up to date in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
The Arts & Their Philosophies S.
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9780877226772
SKU
V9780877226772
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Reviews for Sound Sentiment
"Kivy's is a lucid and eminently readable account, interesting both historically and conceptually, of musical expressiveness
flexible in that it gives scope to both the contour and the convention models, the account becoming more convincing as one reads, as the theory is applied to more and more specific passages of music, and as one after another bit of irrelevancy or pseudo-mysticism ... Read more
flexible in that it gives scope to both the contour and the convention models, the account becoming more convincing as one reads, as the theory is applied to more and more specific passages of music, and as one after another bit of irrelevancy or pseudo-mysticism ... Read more