Did Bach compose musical works? An evaluation of Goehr's watershed thesis
| dc.contributor.author | Dyck, John | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Tillman, Chris (Philosophy) Burleson, Richard (Music) | en |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Matheson, Carl (Philosophy) | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-08T19:19:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-09-08T19:19:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-09-08T19:19:25Z | |
| dc.degree.discipline | Philosophy | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts (M.A.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis evaluates Lydia Goehr’s claim that the musical work-concept did not regulate musical practice before the watershed date of 1800. In the first chapter, I evaluate Goehr’s arguments for this claim from historical musicology. I appeal both to recent secondary research sources in musicology, and to philosophical analysis. The second and third chapters focus on philosophical aspects of Goehr’s watershed claim. In the second chapter, I focus on understanding Goehr’s claim that a regulative shift occurred during the watershed date—that is, a change in the norms of musical practice. I argue that this shift is properly understood as a shift in unconscious, rather than conscious, concepts about musical practice. In the third chapter, I consider the ontological implications of Goehr’s view; Goehr adopts a view according to which musical works do not exist. I show that the argument for this view is unsound. | en |
| dc.description.note | October 2010 | en |
| dc.format.extent | 793042 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4107 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | philosophy of music | en |
| dc.subject | historical musicology | en |
| dc.title | Did Bach compose musical works? An evaluation of Goehr's watershed thesis | en |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |