{"product_id":"music-in-the-moment-paperback","title":"Music in the Moment - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJerrold Levinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is required for a listener to understand a piece of music? Does aural understanding depend upon reflective awareness of musical architecture or large-scale musical structure? Jerrold Levinson thinks not. In contrast to what is commonly assumed, Levinson argues that basic understanding of music only requires properly grounded, present-focused attention, and that virtually everything in the comprehension of extended pieces of music that suggests explicit architectonic awareness can be explained without positing conscious grasp of relationships across broad spans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLevinson rejects the notion that keeping music's large-scale form before the mind is somehow essential to fundamental understanding of it. As evidence, he describes in detail the experience of listening to a wide range of music. He defends, with some qualifications, the views of nineteenth-century musician and psychologist Edmund Gurney, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Sound\u003c\/i\u003e, who argued that musical comprehension requires only attention to the evolution of music from moment to moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusic theory standardly misapprehends the experience and mindset of most who know and love classical music, concludes Levinson. His book is a defense of the passionate and attentive, though architectonically unconcerned, music listener.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerrold Levinson is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e Music, Art, and Metaphysics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pleasures of Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by Cornell, and the editor of the\u003ci\u003e Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 196\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 9 x 6.23 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 30, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751358365984,"sku":"9780801474293","price":29.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9afacdb69c01bd6b77ae29dc5fa11847.webp?v=1779971650","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/music-in-the-moment-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}