VOLUME 6 • 2007
THE MODALITY OF THE ROMANIAN-LANGUAGE FOLKSONG
ABSTRACT. Zlateva remarks that in Banat the songs have four melodic lines, with the main cadence after the second, on the subtonic. Beissinger contends that Romanian epic songs range from approximately 150 to 400 lines. Leytes witnesses significant and surprising similarities in Enescu and Gershwin ..
ON AUTHENTIC PERFORMANCE PRACTICE
ABSTRACT. According to Nielsen, intervals are the elements which first arouse a deeper interest in music. Kramer stresses that the culture of classical music came to seem mandarin and out of touch. Lewis says that notes, timbre, melody, rhythm, and other musical constructs cannot function simply as ..
MUSIC PERFORMANCE, REHEARSING, AND CONDUCTING
ABSTRACT. Lee et al. explain that designing interactive conducting exhibits for public spaces poses unique challenges (the conceptual model of conducting music varies among users). Humphries argues that to deal with vertically conceived passages, one needs a clear image of each separate chord and an..
ON PREFERRING BEETHOVEN
ABSTRACT. Solomon argues that in the openings of certain of his greatest works, Beethoven eradicates the implication of a safe haven. As Schenker puts it, in the first movement of Beethoven's Eroica symphony even the descending fifth-progression in bars 90-1, the third fifth-progression of the movem..
FORM, RHYTHM, AND EXPRESSION IN CHORAL MUSIC
ABSTRACT. Davis contends that at the point of ratings diversion, musical content becomes more complex with fast tempo, repetitive choral accompaniment figures, loud dynamics, and incrementally more complicated text placement where canon form is used. Burrows claims that Handel's Chapel Royal music d..
PITCH, RHYTHM, AND INSTRUMENTAL COLOR (I)
ABSTRACT. Meyer explains that musical styles are more or less complex systems of sound relationships understood and used in common by a group of individuals. Kivy holds that the emotions expressed by music are possessed by the music (they are an essential part of the syntactic structure of music). M..
WITTGENSTEIN ON THE GENERAL FORM OF A PROPOSITION
ABSTRACT. Wittgenstein claims that [p, ξ,N(ξ)] is the general form of a proposition and that any proposition can be generated by successive applications of the N(ξ) operator. After explaining the general form and the intended procedure, I argue that, regardless of whether the operator is understood ..
THE MORAL DIMENSION OF WITTGENSTEIN'S PHILOSOPHICAL METHOD
ABSTRACT. Wittgenstein wrote: 'Working in philosophy … is really more a working on oneself. On one's own interpretation. On one's own way of seeing things.' In what sense, for Wittgenstein, is work in philosophy 'work on oneself'? This paper will be devoted to answering this question, and to delinea..
DEFENDING A PURE BIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF "FORM OF LIFE" IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS
ABSTRACT. In this paper, I defend the currently unpopular view that we ought to interpret "form of life" in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations simply as "biologically similar." My defense takes place in two parts. First, in sections I and II, I attempt to recast the problem and provide crit..
HERETICAL ESSAY ON WITTGENSTEIN'S META-ETHICS
ABSTRACT. Ethics cannot be taught, not in the sense in which all factual teaching occurs. If someone learns, that individual has already lived according to a moral standard. The decision to be attentive and willing to learn is, in other words, not teachable; it is the independent contribution of the..
ON LADDER WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS AND ONE WAY OF DEALING WITH THEM
ABSTRACT. The Tractatus speaks so much about logic because logic can unproblematically be spoken of in the language-game of logic, unlike ethics. But the status of the Tractatus as an ethical treatise which nevertheless presents its critique by means of formal logic is, in the end, caused by the fac..
POETRY AND PRIVATE LANGUAGE
ABSTRACT. The paper discusses three theses in relation to poetry: (1) the Inadequacy Thesis: language is inadequate to capture, portray, do justice to, the quality and intensity of the inner life; (2) the Empathy Thesis: descriptions of certain kinds of experiences can only be (adequately) understoo..