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  1. Feb 13, 2008 · The notion of the musical instrument, as an object with sonic and musical possibilities and limitations and with its own history of development, shapes our understanding of the taxonomy and genres of music. We think, for example, of string music, organ music, music for winds, music for brass bands, and so on.

  2. Feb 13, 2008 · Department of Philosophy Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 internet: alperson@temple.edu. Search for more papers by this author

    • Philip Alperson
    • 2008
  3. composer's work is done when he has written the score, even though the per-formances are the end-products." More-over, on Goodman's view, music is an "allographic" rather than an "autogra-phic" art. An art is autographic "if and only if the distinction between original and forgery of it is significant; or better, 18

  4. Dec 10, 2016 · Abstract. Philip Alperson, in ‘The Instrumentality of Music’, extends the commonsense concept of musical instrument to an understanding encompassing the instrument’s musical, cultural and conceptual situation.

  5. 216 Philip Alperson health is evident enough. How do we justify an expenditure of time and money for education about an activity which, on the surface of things, seems so utterly dispensable? The situation does not appear to be quite so desperate in the case of literature and the visual arts. At least there we can fall back on the bromide

  6. Jan 1, 2014 · This chapter draws on material from Alperson, ‘Facing the Music: Voices from the Margins;’ and Alperson and Carroll, ‘Music, Mind, and Morality: Arousing the Body Politic’ [2, 4]. Philosophical discussion of the moral significance of music has ancient roots.

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