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Of essence and context: Between music and philosophy (2019)
Book
Stanevičiūtė, R., Zangwill, N., & Povilionienė, R. (Eds.). (2019). Of essence and context: Between music and philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14471-5

This book provides a new approach to the intersections between music and philosophy. It features articles that rethink the concepts of musical work and performance from ontological and epistemological perspectives and discuss issues of performing pra... Read More about Of essence and context: Between music and philosophy.

Music, essence and context (2019)
Book Chapter
Zangwill, N. (2019). Music, essence and context. In R. Povilioniene, R. Stanevičiūtė, & N. Zangwill (Eds.), Of Essence and Context: Between Music and Philosophy (27-41). Springer Publishing Company

I defend the application of the notion of essence to music. I appeal to the essences of events rather than objects, and I focus on functional events, such as handshakes, which have historical essences. Musical essences are like that. This allows us t... Read More about Music, essence and context.