Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I Philosophical Investigations 7
1 When is a Tune? 9
2 Music and Cognitive Science 27
3 Music and the Moral Life 49
4 Music and the Transcendental 71
5 Tonality 85
6 German Idealism and the Philosophy of Music 109
Part II Critical Explorations 125
7 Franz Schubert and the Quartettsatz 127
8 Rameau the Musician 137
9 Britten's Dirge 147
10 David Matthews 153
11 Reflections on Deaths in Venice 165
12 Pierre Boulez 173
13 Film Music 179
14 The Assault on Opera 185
15 Nietzsche on Wagner 191
16 The Music of the Future 211
17 The Culture of Pop 231
Bibliography 245
Acknowledgements 250
Index 251