Peter Kivy

Kivy provides close philosophical analysis of texts that underpin the origins of Western European opera and... relates seventeenth and eighteenth-century operatic practice to the philosophical... — The TimesMore…

Written in lively prose, with a keen sense of reality, this volume ought to be of interest not only to philosophers and musicologists, but to all serious lovers of music." -- Roger Scruton — The TimesMore…

Peter Kivy is the most influential and prolific author on the philosophy of music within the analytical tradition ... Kivy has written a very readable and elegantly composed philosophy of music,... — British Journal of AestheticsMore…

Lives up to Kivy's reputation as a leading philosopher of music ... there are many interesting passages and the book is, as ever, written in a pleasant style. This is a book that cannot fail... — British Journal of AestheticsMore…