VOLUME 9 • 2010
THE LANGUAGE OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS
ABSTRACT. the objectivity of physics has been called into question by social theorists, Kuhnian relativists, and by anomalous aspects of quantum mechanics. Here we focus on one neglected background issue, the categorical structure of the language of classical physics. The first half is an historical..
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF THEATRE: THE EXPERIENCE OF AVANT-GARDE AND BLACK THEATRE
ABSTRACT. In this paper we argue there are three separate senses of the political in theatre – what we call in turn: (1) revolutionary content, a theatre that much in the style of Brecht or Lukacs seeks to represent the truth of class, gender or “race” relations; (2) experimental theatre, theatre th..
Book review: Semiotics of Programming
Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press 2010, 217 pp. Tanaka-Ishii has written a valuable, thorough, and thought-provoking book and her analyses are perceptive and well-considered. Semiotics of Programming is undeniably valuable and offers a great deal of fodder for contemporary philosophical de..
Book review: Seeing Wittgenstein Anew
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010, 393 pp. Seeing Wittgenstein Anew is hugely stimulating, offering a clear guide to key aspects of Wittgenstein’s remarks on the concept of aspect-seeing. It is a model of precision and clarity, and covers an impressive amount territory in a clear fashion...
CONCEPT FORMATION AND CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR
ABSTRACT. Botha notes that metaphors are pervasive both in thought and in language and in human subjective experience in general: in conceptual metaphor theory metaphors are analyzed as stable and systematic relation- ships between two conceptual domains. Mittelberg explores the semiotic work gestur..
THE INFLUENCE OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE ON MUSIC PERCEPTION
ABSTRACT. Huron proposes that the emotions evoked by expectation involve five functionally distinct physiological systems: imagination, tension, prediction, reaction, and appraisal. As Bicknell puts it, caution must be exercised in drawing general inferences about the phenomenon of musical quotation..
THE SOCIAL AND RELATIONAL ASPECTS OF MUSIC MAKING
ABSTRACT. Zbikowski posits that conceptions of musical gesture are framed in terms of the motion of bodies through space. Dillon argues that meaningful music making for life proposes a way of engaging with the tensions at the interfaces between cultures and times. Oliveira et al. maintain that emoti..
METAPHOR IN MUSICAL EXPERIENCE
ABSTRACT. According to Ockelford, an effective way of explaining zygonic theory is through analogy with the construction of meaning in verbal language. Budd explains that the judgement that a musical phrase sounds melancholy is purely descriptive. Robinson insists that some music has the power to af..
ANALYTICAL AND INTUITIVE UNDERSTANDINGS GAINED THROUGH MUSIC EXPERIENCE
ABSTRACT. Zemach and Balter insist that two central characteristics of music make it amenable to situational irony: (i) music raises expectations (competent listeners project situations they consider right for the musical conditions at hand), and (ii) listeners compare and contrast the anticipated s..
THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE EXPERIENCE OF LISTENING TO MUSIC WITH UNDERSTANDING
ABSTRACT. Boghossian states that an inference from the legitimacy of our emotional responses is not the only sort of evidence that we have for the existence of musical meaning. Robinson puts it that to describe music metaphorically is not the same thing as to treat a piece of music as itself a metap..
EXAMINING THE ROLE OF PERFORMANCE AS PART OF MUSIC EDUCATION
ABSTRACT. As Dodd puts it, the fact that a score instructs performers to use specific instrumentation does not entail that a properly formed performance must use the instrumentation specified. Morris holds that performances of musical works are themselves both musical and works. Davies claims that i..
VOCAL EXPRESSION, MUSIC PERFORMANCE, AND COMMUNICATION OF EMOTIONS
ABSTRACT. Juslin and Laukka contend that the same selective pressures that shaped the development of the basic emotions should favor the development of skills for expressing and recognizing the same emotions. Kivy insists that the texts must be expressively appropriate to the music for which they ar..