by Peter Kivy
Temple University Press, 1989
Paper: 978-0-87722-677-2
Library of Congress Classification ML3845.K595 1989
Dewey Decimal Classification 780.1

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Corded Shell: Reflections on Musical Expression, published in 1980 and now out of print, was concerned with the question of how music comes to have the emotional properties that have been perceived in it and ascribed to it since antiquity. In that book, Peter Kivy argued that music possesses expressive properties, not as powers to arouse emotions in us but, rather, as perceived qualities of the music itself. In Sound Sentiment, he augments his previous work with four entirely new chapters. Incorporating the complete, corrected text of The Corded Shell, Kivy brings his earlier arguments up to date in light of recent work in the field, and discusses and answers various criticisms.