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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
Feb 13, 2008 · You look through the soundproof glass and you see a man, transfixed, concentrating on his music as he plays his musical instrument. You see Pablo Casals with his cello. What could be clearer than this?
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To begin with, Alperson’s “robust praxialism” and the usual rationales for ‘music education as aesthetic education’ are, contrary to his admonition quoted above, fully predicated on a “totalizing account” that is based on an essentialized notion of music: that music’s manifold praxial values and functions rely on the appeal of music’s aesthetic ...
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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Alperson, Elliott deliberately focused on elaborating what he took to be a prevalent concept of music as an aesthetic object, arguing that ‘musical works involve many kinds of meanings’, and thereby reminding his readers that musical understanding of
