Philosophical Perspectives on Music

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Philosophical Perspectives on Music is written by Wayne D. Bowman and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195112962 (ISBN 10) and 9780195112962 (ISBN 13).

An introduction to diverse philosophical perspectives on the nature and value of music, ranging from the ancient Greeks to idealism to phenomenology to contemporary socio-cultural critiques. Designed to introduce the serious music student with no philosophical background to the vitality of music philosophical discourse, it explores a broad range of music philosophical terrain, showing the philsophers' reasons for holding what can seem to the non-philosopher like extraordinarily bizarre notions, while at the same time pointing out the philosophical shortcomings of what musicians often take for common-sense musical truths.