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11An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical ThoughtJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. forthcoming.Husserl famously characterized phenomenology as a science of “infinite tasks.” Among other things, this claim refers to the maximally general scope of phenomeno.
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40Is a kantian Musical Formalism Possible?Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74 (1): 35-46. 2016.In this article, I consider whether a suitably stripped-down version of Kant's aesthetic theory could nevertheless provide philosophical foundations for musical formalism. I begin by distinguishing between formalism as a view about the nature of music and formalism as an approach to music criticism, arguing that Kant's aesthetics only rules out the former. Then, using an example from the work of musicologist and composer Edward T. Cone, I isolate the characteristics of formalist music criticism.…Read more
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45Nussbaum, Charles O. The Musical Representation: Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion. MIT Press, 2007, xii + 388 pp., $40.00 cloth, $20.00 paper (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 71 (3): 303-306. 2013.
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"Where nature will speak to them in sacred sounds" : music and transcendence in E.T.A. HoffmannIn Férdia Stone-Davis (ed.), Music and Transcendence, Ashgate. pp. 159-176. 2015.
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