Books written by Peter Kivy
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Once-Told Tales: An Essay in Literary Aesthetics
... 1897, from 'L'Estampe Moderne', published Paris 1897-99. Private Collection / The Stapleton Collection / The Bridgeman Art Library. Jacket design by Richard Boxall Design Associates ISBN 978-0-470-65767-6 peter kivy ...
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Music Alone: Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience
He considers here what he believes to be the most difficult subject of all--"just plain music; music unaccompanied by text, title, subject, program, or plot; in other words, music alone."
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Sound Sentiment: An Essay on the Musical Emotions, Including the Complete Text of The Corded Shell
One of the more recent , by Deryck Cooke , in The Language of Music , is particularly relevant to my purposes in that it defends Gluck just by trying to find a musical " figure of speech " in Gluck's aria that does customarily accompany ...
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The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius
This book explores the concept of artistic genius and how it came to be symbolised by three great composers of the modern era: Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven.
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Introduction to a Philosophy of Music
Peter Kivy has been at the center of this flourishing, and now offers his personal introduction to philosophy of music, a clear and lively explanation of how he sees the most important and interesting philosophical issues relating to music.
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New Essays on Musical Understanding
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously . ... When I use a word , ' Humpty Dumpty said , in rather a scornful tone , ' it means just what I choose it to mean neither more nor less . ... appealing to the Humpty Dumpty syndrome .
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The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutchenson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics
This new edition brings Peter Kivy's seminal work back into print, substantially expanded by the addition of seven essays, which deal primarily with Hutcheson's relation to other thinkers, and his influence on eighteenth- and early ...
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Music Alone: Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience
What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rewarding? In addressing these questions, Peter Kivy continues his highly regarded exploration of the philosophy of musical aesthetics.
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Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music
Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon.
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Authenticities: Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance
This is a most valuable book, one which constantly surprises and delights through its philosophical insights and informed musical understanding."—British Journal of Aesthetics
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Music, Language, and Cognition: And Other Essays in the Aesthetics of Music
Music, Language, and Cognition is the third collection of Peter Kivy's seminal papers in the philosophy of music.
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Once Upon a Time: Essays in the Philosophy of Literature
... Stories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 42–48. 23. Peter Kivy, Once-Told Tales: An Essay in Literary Aesthetics (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 147–54. 24. Currie, Narrations and Narrators, 47. 25. Kivy, Once-Told Tales ...