Introduction Sam McAuliffe
Part I - Hermeneutics and Musical Performance
Serious Play: Towards a Philosophical Understanding of Interpretive Musical Performance
Goetz Richter
Playing Well with Others: Improvisation, Dialogue, and the Other-than-Human
Joshua Bergamin
The Dance that Transforms: Gadamer on Morality, Music, and Religion
Bruce Ellis Benson
Part II - Hermeneutics Across Musical Practice
Tarrying with and Executing the Plant Pieces of John Cage
Anthony Gritten
Arabic Maqam: Improvisation and Gadamerian Hermeneutics
Daniel Regnier
Embodied Tradition: Jazz Improvisation in Light of Gadamer's Hermeneutics
Daniel Martin Feige
Part III - Gadamer and the Philosophy of Music
The Drastic Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Vladimir Jankélévitch
Maurice Windleburn
Historicity, Tonality, and Freedom of Interpretation: Gadamer's Critique of Ingarden Quentin Gailhac
Horizons and Interfaces in Knowing the World through Music
Floris Schuiling and Michiel Kamp
Part IV - Receiving the Musical
Can Music Speak? The Language of Art and the Communicability of Aesthetics Experience Roger W. H. Savage
The Experience of Music in the Digital Age: From Auditory Ereignis to Episodic Insignificance and Back
Casey Rentmeester
Re-Sounding: The Ontological Hermeneutics of Music as Listening
Stuart Grant
Gadamer and Musical Conversation
Babette Babich
Part V - Music and the Elucidation of Understanding
Music's Aesthetic Untology: Understanding's InMaterial Improvisations
Melissa Freeman
The Hermeneutics of Performance and the Performance of Hermeneutics: Music as a Paradigm for Gadamer's Conception of Art
Elena Romagnoli
Gadamer and the Musicality of Hermeneutics
Sam McAuliffe
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