Kivy on Justifying Music in Liberal Education
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| Title: | Kivy on Justifying Music in Liberal Education |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Goodrich, R. A. |
| Source: | Journal of Aesthetic Education. Spr 2002 36(1):50-59. |
| Availability: | University of Illinois Press. 1325 South Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820-6903. Tel: 217-244-0626; Fax: 217-244-8082; e-mail: journals@uillinois.edu; Web site: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/main.html |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
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| Page Count: | 10 |
| Publication Date: | 2002 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles |
| Descriptors: | Music Education, Liberal Arts, General Education, Emotional Response, Musical Instruments, Aesthetic Education, Aesthetics, Acculturation, Epistemology |
| ISSN: | 0021-8510 |
| Abstract: | Within analytical aesthetic circles, Peter Kivy is best known for re-igniting the debate inaugurated by Eduard Hanslick over the issue of whether or not music of the purely instrumental or absolute kind can be said to express a content, and, if so, whether or not listeners' emotional responses to it bear any relation to that content. Kivy's particular contribution countenances the possibility of interpreting the appearance of a musical work as expressive, be it the percussive "Allegro barbaro" [1911] by Bela Bartok or the lyrical "Adagio for Strings" [1936] by Samuel Barber, without having to presume that music itself, being non-sentient by nature, possesses any emotional, subjective state. This short essay will examine Kivy's more recent attempt to justify the place of purely instrumental music in liberal education without drawing upon the notion of expressiveness, reconceptualizing the matter in a manner that significantly shifts from the dominant epistemological arena of debate. (Contains 17 notes.) |
| Abstractor: | ERIC |
| Entry Date: | 2008 |
| Access URL: | https://jae.press.uiuc.edu/36.1/goodrich.html |
| Accession Number: | EJ790186 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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