Basics & Foundations
Definition of music
Organized sound
What is music the representation of, according to Schopenhauer?
What is eliminativism?
The view that musical works are not real
What set structures of sound are there?
Melody and harmony
What is ethnomusicology?
The study of music in social and cultural environments
What book did Nietzsche write about the world being torn between two tendencies?
The Birth of Tragedy
What is the view that says music is a collection of particulars?
Nominalism
How can individual songs be viewed as?
Repeatable performances of music
What are major and minor keys?
Aesthetic properties
1) physical bodies aren't made of numbers
or
2) there is no physical effect on humans
What are the theories under anti-realism?
Eliminativism and Fictionalism
What is John Cage's most notable composition?
4'33"
Within the fundamentalist debate, what does Davies believe?
Works of music are actions
Why were music and mathematics connected according to Pythagoras?
Numbers involved in the ratios of intervals
Who said that knowing large musical structures is necessary to understand music?
Peter Kivy
What is the term for when an instrument is not played or played silently?
Tacet
What does instantiated mean in music?
Multiple instances of different musical pieces
How did Plato view music?
Why is there a flaw in music making?
Skeptical view that only 19th century music is "true music"
What are the 2 ways 4'33" can be viewed?
1) Absence of sound
or
2) Full of silence