A Response to Kivy: Music and "Music Appreciation" in the Undergraduate Liberal Arts Curriculum

01 October 1999 that well educated humanities students learn music in the way that music faculties today are required to teach them. Peter Kivy, "Music and the Liberal Education" I want to focus on the source of the above quotation—the opening chapter in Kivy's The...

[i]The Emancipation of Music from Language: Departure from Mimesis in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics[/i], by John Neubauer

01 October 1987 of Sir Winston Churchill's, this may not be the end of the beginning, but it is the beginning of the beginning. authors: Peter Kivy author_ids: 1205 authors: Peter Kivy author_ids: 1205

Expanding Frames of Reference: Teaching the History of Electro-Acoustic Music

01 October 2006 Context Brian Mann once stated in these pages1 that competence in music appreciation is, among other things, a matter of continually expanding frames of reference. He stated, as an example, that one appreciates Beethoven's Eroica to a certain extent on...

An Outsider’s Guide to Classical Music: Teaching the Western Canon as “Other”

01 October 2009 There is a need to teach the young people who will be doing the science themselves, but this will always be a small minority among us. There is a deeper need to teach science to those who will be needed for thinking about it, and this means pretty...

Preface to a Graduate Course in the History of Music Theory

01 October 1982 As a doctoral degree certifies (among other things) to a breadth of knowledge in the field, one requirement for the Ph.D. in music theory should be a scholarly course surveying the history of theory. To decide on this requirement, however, is easier...

Music as Life-Saving Project: Venezuela’s El Sistema in American Neo-Idealistic Imagination

28 April 2014 Rethinking Music. In appropriating the philosophical term “ontology”—which for decades has served aestheticians such as Peter Kivy and Jerrold Levinson as the canvas for the challenge of defining the parameters by which the musical object can be said to...

Tradition and Creation: Hugo Wolf's "Fussreise"

01 October 1988 it. Analysis, having its own aims, may leave aside these elemental philosophical concerns, which such skilled thinkers as Peter Kivy and Edward T. Cone have recently addressed.8 Not required either and perhaps not wanted is any set of prior findings as...

Toward a Unified Theory of Music Esthetics for the College Music Curriculum

31 October 1995 Davies arrives at ideas, which I have described above, sympathetic to but distinctive from those of Malcolm Budd, Peter Kivy, Roger Scruton, and Jerrold Levinson. At this point, my cursory exposition of these three books is concluded. The differences...

Jeff Beck: The Quintessential Postmodern Virtuoso Meets Baudrillard’s Racing Driver and his Double

05 June 2013 Curves.” Guitar Player November 1993: 45-48. Goldman, Alan. “Evaluating Art.” The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics. Ed. Peter Kivy. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. 93-109. Hebdige, Dick. Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things. London: Routledge, 1989....