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    This thesis explores the concept of timbre through the lens of analytic philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of music. I argue that timbre should be thought of as providing the grounds for artistic and aesthetic values in music. To this end and firstly, I critique the physical sense of timbre in favour of two anti-realist senses of timbre. These two are the qualitative and the semantic senses which are developed from two of Siedenburg and McAdams’ four senses of timbre. I argue that the quali…Read more
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    Composers’ manipulation of temporality vis-à-vis the unfolding of musical time is central to the discipline and indeed the history of music is replete with differing methods and approaches to the potentials inherent in the manipulation of listeners' attention and expectation. In this essay I will address one such movement or approach entitled ‘spectralism’, which is based on analysis into the perception of sound itself as a means to create music and which espouses research into the spectral info…Read more