Music is the Voice
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
SURC 301
Start Date
17-5-2012
End Date
17-5-2012
Abstract
Music becomes a voice for people. Not just individuals, but for whole generations. Music expresses the emotion that people of a certain culture and particular time period are feeling, and by doing so, music unites them. I am looking at the philosophy of music, mainly Peter Kivy's formal interpretation of emotional expressiveness in music. Kivy maintains that music is not able to express a garden variety of emotion to the listener. What moves us is the form and structure of the music. If this theory holds true, then, it does not account for historical relativism and music for the generation. I am looking deeper into how music becomes the voice of a generation. To do so I must acknowledge that Kivy's theory has flaws and look at a theory that can account for this phenomenon, that being, emotivism.
Recommended Citation
Hoffman, David, "Music is the Voice" (2012). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 33.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2012/oralpresentations/33
Additional Mentoring Department
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Music is the Voice
SURC 301
Music becomes a voice for people. Not just individuals, but for whole generations. Music expresses the emotion that people of a certain culture and particular time period are feeling, and by doing so, music unites them. I am looking at the philosophy of music, mainly Peter Kivy's formal interpretation of emotional expressiveness in music. Kivy maintains that music is not able to express a garden variety of emotion to the listener. What moves us is the form and structure of the music. If this theory holds true, then, it does not account for historical relativism and music for the generation. I am looking deeper into how music becomes the voice of a generation. To do so I must acknowledge that Kivy's theory has flaws and look at a theory that can account for this phenomenon, that being, emotivism.
Faculty Mentor(s)
Matthew Altman