Essays on the Philosophy of Music

absolute music abstract aesthetic analysis antecedent artistic Bach Bach's basic brain cognitive collective belief worlds community of origin community of reception composer composition concept of music conceptual space context counterfactual cultural Dahlhaus defined denote dimensions EERO TARASTI elements emotions evaluated example exemplified fact Forkel formal formula function genre given Goodman grammar hermeneutics Ibid idea images instance intensional interpretation Johann Sebastian Bach kind language Las Meninas Levinson listener logical M-sentences meaning metaphors Moonlight Sonata music theory musical expression Musik narrative nature notation note text notion object painting paradigm perception performance philosophy pitch possible sound situations possible worlds postmodern problem program music properties Ref-class reference relation rules score seems semantic semantic value semiotics sense sentence Sonata sonata form sound event sound structure string style symbol syntactic theme tion tonal harmony tones true understanding variation