Music and Language, Music Education, Ontology of Music, Phenomenology, History of Philosophy of Music, Expressivity

In this video I will guide you through some of the main discusions of the field of philosophy of music.

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LINKS ONLINE, REFERRED TO IN THE VIDEO:
Paul Oskar Kristeller: ‘The Modern System of the Arts’, in Journal of the History of Ideas, 1951
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2707484
Susanna Välimäki: ‘Symfoniorkestrarna är den patriarkala kulturens sista fäste’, in Hufvudstadsbladet, 2019
https://www.hbl.fi/artikel/4db07205-c...
Susanna Välimäki and Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik: ‘Sävelten tyttäret’, Suomen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2023
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.5...
Rebecka S. Ahvenniemi: ‘Composition of Vocal Music. Against Primacy of Content’, Studia Musicologica Norvegica, 2020
https://www.idunn.no/doi/pdf/10.18261...
Rebecka S. Ahvennniemi: ‘Musical Compositions and Fractures. Leaving Traces in Material, Technique, and Thought’, The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, 2022
https://tidsskrift.dk/nja/article/vie...

TIME CODES:
00:00 - Intro
01:42 - What is the philosophy of music?
08:15 - History of the philosophy of music
43:14 - Music and expressivity
54:28 - Music and language
01:12:12 - The ontology of musical works
01:24:04 - Music education: towards a mature society
01:32:20 - Phenomenology of music
01:41:55 - Critical perspectives: music is not innocent
01:51:23 - Final words

SOUND SOURCES:
Sample 1, from Epidemicsound: Rebecca Mardal - Sonic Raindrops, 2024
Sample 2, from Epidemicsound: Armida Quartett, Mozart - String Quartet nr. 5 in F Major, K158, Andante un poco allegretto, 2016
Sample 3, soundmix by Rebecka S. Ahvenniemi: based on improvisations of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde”; music notated in Dorico, looped and improvised, exported as mp3, mixed further in Amadeus Pro, 2022 and 2024

ILLUSTRATIONS:
Rebecka S. Ahvenniemi: 'Armchair philosopher’, ‘dude on electric scooter’, ‘Hildegard von Bingen’, and ‘genius baby’.

VIDEO MANUSCRIPT, FILMING AND EDITING:
Rebecka S. Ahvenniemi