This volume explores Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics within a musical context. It features contributions from philosophers, musicians, educators, and musicologists from a variety of backgrounds, and sheds light on both the hermeneutic nature of music and the musicality of hermeneutics. Contributors to this volume hermeneutically think with music to uncover its fundamentally hermeneutic character, and by thinking with Gadamer in a musical context, explore ways in which hermeneutics may be understood to possess an inherent musicality. Gadamer's thought is taken up in a variety of musical contexts including improvisation, musical performance, classical music, jazz, and music criticism.
This first volume to explore Gadamer's hermeneutics in a musical context breaks new ground by challenging musical concepts and by pushing Gadamer's thought in new directions. It appeals to philosophers engaged with Gadamer's thought (and philosophical hermeneutics more broadly), as well as philosophers of music, musicologists, and musicians interested in critically engaging with the practice of performing and listening to music.

Explores the relevance of Gadamer's thinking for philosophy of music Considers the musicality of understanding Establishes the universal applicability of hermeneutics for understanding music

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Dr. Sam McAuliffe is affiliated with Monash University, Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Serious Play: Towards a philosophical understanding of interpretative musical performance.- The Participant Belongs to the Play: The Ethical Dimensions of Improvised Music.- The Dance That Transforms: Gadamer on Morality, Music, and Religion.- Tarrying with John Cage's plant pieces.- Horizons of Fusion: Arabic Maqm, Improvisation and Gadamerian Hermeneutics.- Living Tradition: Jazz Improvisation in the light of Gadamer's Hermeneutics.- The Drastic Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Vladimir Jankélévitch.- The musical work of art and its interpretations: Gadamer's critique of Ingarden.- Gadamer's horizons as interfaces for knowing musical worlds.- Can Music Speak? The Language of Art and the Communicability of Aesthetic Experience.- The Experience of Music in the Digital Age: From Auditory Ereignis to Episodic Insignificance and Back.- Re-sounding: Towards an ontological hermeneutics of being-musically.- Gadamer, Beauty, and Musical Improvisation.- Music's Aesthetic Un tology: Understanding's In Material Improvisations.- The Hermeneutics of Performance and the Performance of Hermeneutics.- Approaching Hermeneutics through Music.