Reading this book is a satisfying experience since it gives one the impression that progress is being made in the philosophy of music.... Scholars working in the philosophy of music will want to have a copy for ease of reference.... Libraries supporting research on aesthetics will need a copy.(The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism) This collection can be enthusiastically recommended to philosophers who want to hear some of the latest news from musicology.(British Journal of Aesthetics) This excellent collection... is a humanistically rich, argumentatively subtle, and music-analytically accomplished volume, engendering a fuller awareness of the conceptual legacy of the Wagner-Hanslick debate that would place formal analysis in polemical opposition to narrative and emotive content, and taking a great stride towards overcoming that pernicious dichotomy. The book well deserves an enthusiastic recommendation to everyone desiring a fuller comprehension of the complexities of musical experience.(Philosophy in Review)
