Levinson J. Musical Concerns: Essays in Philosophy of Music

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. — 182 p.This volume presents a new collection of essays, all of them dealing with music, by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today. It follows in the line of Levinson's earlier collections, Music, Art, and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), and Contemplating Art (2006), and is representative of the most stimulating work being done under the rubric of analytic aesthetics. The essays, which are wide-ranging, should appeal to aestheticians, philosophers, musicologists, music theorists, music critics and music lovers of all kinds. Three of the twelve essays comprising the volume have not previously been published, and in somewhat of a departure for Levinson, four of the essays focus on music in the jazz tradition.Philosophy and Music
The Aesthetic Appreciation of Music
Concatenationism, Architectonicism, and the Appreciation of Music
Indication, Abstraction, and Individuation
Musical Beauty
Values of Music
Shame in General and Shame in Music
Jazz Vocal Interpretation: A Philosophical Analysis
Popular Song as Moral Microcosm: Life Lessons from Jazz Standards
The Expressive Specificity of Jazz
Instrumentation and Improvisation
What Is a Temporal Art? with Philip Alperson