ART MUSIC: LOVE, LISTENING, AND SOULFULNESS

Book ID/图书代码： 13149013B62671

English Summary/英文概要： Listening to music is not merely something one does, but something central to a way of living. Listening has the power to transport one into another way of being. It is a mode of feeling and forms the bedrock of deep emotion. Written from the viewpoint of a philosophy of sensibility, Matthew Del Nevo notes that this perspective may not be in fashion, but it follows a long tradition.

Del Nevo emphasizes the aesthetic experience of listening to art music as it has developed and disintegrated in Western civilization. He recognizes a deep psychological element to what he calls "soul"—or more accurately "sensibility." He addresses music in a non-technical way, taking up the powerful art theory of Charles Baudelaire, the music philosophy of Schopenhauer and Richard Wagner, and takes a strong critical stand against modernist intellectual art music.

The importance of this book for the musically- literate reader is its insight into the metaphysics of nostalgia. This comprehension is missing from nearly all musical instruction because we have lost sight of it. Del Nevo asserts that this understanding must be brought back into our culture. And since this is a book about listening to art music, it is no less about sensibility and its cultivation, which in its object form we call culture. An engaging book, Art Music will appeal to those interested in music, culture, and philosophy.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 听音乐不仅仅是一个人做的事情,而是一种至关重要的生活方式。聆听音乐有将一种存在方式转换到另一种存在方式的魔力。它是一种表达感情的方式并且构成了内心情感的基石。从感性的哲学角度出发、马修•德尔尼沃（Matthew Del Nevo）强调说这个角度可能不很受大众欢迎,但它沿袭了一个悠久的传统。 德尔尼沃(Del Nevo) 强调了聆听音乐艺术的审美体验，随着因为它会在西方文明中发展，分离。他将一个深层次的心理元素定义为所谓的“灵魂”——或者更准确地定义为“感性”。 他以一种非专业的方式,发表了他对音乐的看法，采用了夏尔•皮埃尔•波德莱尔强大的艺术理论,叔本华和瓦格纳的音乐哲学,并且以一种强烈批评的立场反对现代主义的理智音乐艺术。 这本书对于受到音乐熏陶的读者的重要性在于它洞察了人们思乡情的玄学奥妙。这样的理解在几乎所有的的音乐授课教学里是缺失的，因为我们看不见它。德尔尼沃断言这种理解必须渗入我们的文化中。既然这是一本关于聆听音乐艺术的书,它同样是关于情感及其培养,在其客体形式下，我们称之为文化。作为一本引人注目的书,《音乐艺术》将会吸引那些对音乐、文化、和哲学感兴趣的人们（Susie）

Awards/获奖情况：“A wonderful book touching the depths of life. Not only an affirmation of the human soul, but soul-opening and illuminating. Poetry, philosophy, and especially music are here vehicles for exploring and raising sensibility, sensitivity, and soul-life, touching challenges a feeling life faces in an economic age. This work has practical applications as well as functioning as a general tonic. For example, it provides a rich background for music therapy, but more, a support for the power of listening throughout our lives.”—Michael Eigen, Contact With the Depths

“Matthew Del Nevo argues with passion, comprehensive knowledge, and musical sensitivity for the central importance of music to our being. In times where the authenticity and quality of musical listening is continuously challenged by noise, Dr. Del Nevo reminds us in a forthright manner that through music we explore our soul and develop soulfulness. This is a book which says what must be said.”—Goetz Richter, Sydney Conservatorium; author, Congruence of Philosophy and Music: Silent Harmony and Hidden Contemplation

“The underlying theme of Art Music: Love, Listening, and Soulfulness is that no amount of Muzak or episodes of American Idol are likely to completely erase music’s capacity to generate profound aesthetic experience and immediate social bonds. Drawing on philosophers and theorists as varied as Plato, Augustine, Kant, Baudelaire, Schopenhauer, Wagner, Adorno, Levinas, and Scruton, Del Nevo argues that modern listeners need to recover the ‘metaphysics of nostalgia’ lurking within the most temporal of the arts. . . . The argument is that real musical listening—rather than shallow consumerism—is what our culture needs if it is to recover the animating spirit of great art; and, if contemporary individuals are to acquire the self-reflective habits that soulfulness demands. With its robust central message, and extensive scholarship, Art Music is sure to generate debate amongst music philosophers, musicologists, music teachers, and anyone interested in the fate of modern culture.”—Eduardo de la Fuente, author, Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity

About the Author/作者介绍： 马修•德尔尼沃（Matthew Del Nevo）是悉尼天主教学院的哲学家和《山谷里的灵魂》一书的作者。他的文章已经出现在文学、神学、批判性和创造性思维，以及澳大利亚圣灵降临节的研究论文中。

Matthew Del Nevo is a philosopher at the Catholic Institute of Sydney and author of The Valley Way of Soul, The Work of Enchantment (Transaction, 2011), and The Continental Community of Inquiry. His articles have appeared in Literature and Theology, Critical and Creative Thinking, and Australasian Pentecostal Studies.

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