Posts Tagged ‘ appreciation ’
I recently listened to this interview with Denis Dutton on Bloggingheads.tv about his new book “The Art Instinct“. I haven’t read the book, so I can’t comment on it in detail, but I can definitely tell I want to read it. The basic premise is that the art can be explained in evolutionary terms as the [ READ MORE ]
In my last post, I talked about the meaningless of taste as a way of describing our preferences. In this post, I’m going to sketch out a scheme that I tend to use in describing preferences. There are many ways in which a given piece of music might be appreciated. Examples include virtuosity, technical characteristics, [ READ MORE ]