Of Essence and Context: Between Music and Philosophy

Essence or Context?.- Musics, Essence and Context.- Essence Facilitating Plurality: Theorizing Art with Schelling.- Aristotle Meets Schumann: Essence and Geist.- Musical Images in the Tanakh: Between their Essence, Context and Interpretation.- Xi Kang's Reflection on the Essence of Music: "Hesheng".- Deleuze, Ruyer, and Musical Morphogenesis.- he Biological Constraints on Musical Structure as the Foundations of Musical Essence.- 'In-between' the Autonomous and Contingent Worlds of Music.- Formulating the Essence All Together.- Mathesis as the Source of Beauty in Music.- Some Remarks on Verbal Models in Music.- On the Role of Intonation in Music and Communication Practices.- In Defense of "Authentic" Performance: Adjust Your Ears, Not the Music.- Where is the Essence of a Musical Work?.- Performance as Understanding in Action: Re-thinking the Concept of Musical Experience.- What Is a Musical Act? Understanding Improvisation Through Artefact and Performance.- The Experience of Music as a Process of [Self]Development.- Essence and Context: Exploring the Links Between Music and Philosophy in the Light of Henriette Renié's Reflections.- Redefining Essence: Tuning and Temperament of Chinese Traditional Music.- The Final Radicalism of the Avant-Garde and Its Postmodernist Consequences.- Essence and Context: Process of Becoming and Dialectical Temporality in Adorno and Nono.- The Distance of Presque-rien Between the Musicology and the Philosophy of Music.- Mikhail Gnessin on the Essence of Music and Russian Music.- Reflections About the Essence of Music in a Special Context: Music Reviews by Yuri Ofrosimov and Ludmila Landau in Berlin in the 1920s.- Essence, Context and Meaning in Versions of Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder by Wagner, Mottland Henze.- Leitfigur Beethoven: Thoughts on the Development of German Musicology in Light of the 1968 Movement.