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Gadamer, Music, and Philosophical Hermeneutics

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Overview

  • Explores the relevance of Gadamer's thinking for philosophy of music
  • Considers the musicality of understanding
  • Establishes the universal applicability of hermeneutics for understanding music

Part of the book series: Contributions to Hermeneutics (CONT HERMEN, volume 12)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Hermeneutics Across Musical Practice

  2. Gadamer and the Philosophy of Music

  3. Music and the Elucidation of Understanding

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About this book

This volume explores Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics within a musical context. It features contributions from philosophers, musicians, educators, and musicologists from a variety of backgrounds, and sheds light on both the hermeneutic nature of music and the musicality of hermeneutics. Contributors to this volume hermeneutically think with music to uncover its fundamentally hermeneutic character, and by thinking with Gadamer in a musical context, explore ways in which hermeneutics may be understood to possess an inherent musicality. Gadamer's thought is taken up in a variety of musical contexts including improvisation, musical performance, classical music, jazz, and music criticism.


This first volume to explore Gadamer's hermeneutics in a musical context breaks new ground by challenging musical concepts and by pushing Gadamer's thought in new directions. It appeals to philosophers engaged with Gadamer's thought (and philosophical hermeneutics more broadly), as well as philosophers of music, musicologists, and musicians interested in critically engaging with the practice of performing and listening to music.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

    Sam McAuliffe

About the editor

Dr. Sam McAuliffe is affiliated with Monash University, Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gadamer, Music, and Philosophical Hermeneutics

  • Editors: Sam McAuliffe

  • Series Title: Contributions to Hermeneutics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41570-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41569-2Published: 29 November 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41572-2Due: 30 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41570-8Published: 28 November 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2509-6087

  • Series E-ISSN: 2509-6095

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 294

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics

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