EBOOK Sounding Off:Eleven Essays in the Philosophy of Music

Sounding Off brings together a selection of essays on philosophy of music written        by Peter Kivy--the leading expert on the subject. The essays fall into four groups,        corresponding to Kivy's major interests. Part I contains two essays on the nature of        musical genius. In Part II, three essays take up the subject of authenticity in        performance, and explore what Kivy terms 'the authenticity of interpretation'. Part        III contains four essays concerning the much discussed issuesof musical        representation and musical meaning. Finally, Part IV consists of three essays on the        'pure musical parameters': these are essays on 'music alone' or 'absolute        music'--music as the pure, formal structure of (sometimes) expressive sound. Eight        of the eleven essays presented here are previouslyunpublished, and the book includes        two appendices which provide Kivy's responses to criticism.