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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-
This article thus problematises the depiction of the eunuch as an elite convert by contextualising the eunuch's identification as both a ‘eunuch’ (εὐνοῦχος) and an ‘Ethiopian’ (Αἰθίοψ). Overall, the eunuch is an ambiguous figure who embodies the boundary-crossing nature of the gospel itself.
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PHILIP ALPERSON On Musical Improvisation THE NATURE and significance of improvisa-tion in music are not much discussed by philosophers. Such mention as is made of the subject usually takes the form of occa-sional asides or derisive dismissals. Hans-lick comes to mind here as an exemplar of this treatment of musical improvisation.
Alperson begins his very comprehensive and clear introduction with a historical overview of philosophical reflections on music and argues for the necessity of a distinction between a normative aesthetics of music which takes as its focus music in the fine arts tradition and the philosophy of music, a larger inquiry, which takes as its object ...
Philip Alperson. Recent philosophy of music in the Anglophone analytic tradition has produced many fine-grained analyses of musical practices within the context of the Western fine-art tradition...
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Jun 1, 1989 · What Is Music? by Philip Alperson. Howard Niblock. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 47, Issue 3, Summer 1989, Pages 292–294, https://doi.org/10.2307/431013. Published:
