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  1. The book includes discussions of a great many styles and historical periods of music, from ancient Greek music and music theory to instrumental and operatic music in the Western classical tradition, Persian music, music of the Blackfoot Indians, rock and the blues, and the avant-garde compositions and performances of John Cage.

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  2. Feb 13, 2008 · In other cases, instrumentation becomes a major focus of attention for the whole orchestra, as in the cases of Berlioz and Debussy, whose mastery of instrumental orchestration and color made instrumentation a central object of aesthetic appreciation.

  3. 218 Philip Alperson position to provide, first of all, a philosophy of music, which, ideally would consist in the critical examination of our beliefs about the nature and func-tion of music, including a philosophical consideration of the various aspects of music making and the production of music generally, an inquiry into the

  4. Music Education?" (1991), philosopher Philip Alperson outlined three possible "basic strategies" for understanding and explaining music and music education. He began by describing the "formalist aesthetic view" that originated with such Enlightenment philosophers as Immanuel Kant, according to which "disinter-

  5. In fact, shall argue, such a position undermines praxialism in at least two ways. First, the anti-aesthetic position diminishes the explanatory reach of the praxialist approach to music education...

  6. We can distinguish an artistic object’s “time of creation” (the extent of time of the artist’s conception and production of the object), the object’s “time of presentation” (the extent of time during which the object is made available for direct apprehension by its appreciators), and the “time of reception” of an object (the ...

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  8. Professor Alperson was the editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, the Journal of the American Society of Aesthetics, from 1993 – 2003 and is the General Editor of the Blackwell Series, Foundations of Aesthetics.

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