Music, language, and cognition: and other essays in the aesthetics of music

I. History. Mainwaring's Handel : its relation to British aesthetics

Herbert Spencer and a musical dispute

II. Opera and film. Handel's operas : the form of feeling and the problem of appreciation

Anti-semitism in Meistersinger?

Speech, song, and the transparency of medium : on operatic metaphysics

III. Performance. On the historically informed performance

Ars perfecta : toward perfection in musical performance?

IV. Interpretation. Another go at the meaning of music : Koopman, Davies, and the meaning of "meaning"

Another go at musical profundity : Stephen Davies and the game of chess

From ideology to music : Leonard Meyer's theory of style change

Sibley's last paper

In defense of musical representation : music, representation, and the hybrid arts

Music, language, and cognition : which doesn't belong?