Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Prelude to a Phenomenology of Music

2 A Critique of Visual Metaphor in Philosophy and Music

3 Working Propositions in Sound: a Baroque Suite

4 Musical Sound, a Model for Husserlian Time-Consciousness

5 Cartesian Theory and Musical Science

6 Musicology in Need of New Horizons

7 A Phenomenology of Musical Esthetics: The Continuing Redefinition

8 Esthetic Re-education: the Experiencing of Musical Sound

9 Implications of Phenomenology for Music Education

10 Phenomenological Theme with Dialectical Variation

Postscript: The “End” of Philosophy: the Muser and Music-Maker

Acknowledgments

About the Author

J. F. Smith