What follows is the investigation of the following questions:
- Why are there so many “metaphors” for horn playing?
- What is a relation between the metaphor and the thing that it illuminates?
- The feeling of horn playing
- Consciousness, skill, expertise, habit
- Gestalt?
- Challenges that music theories present (formalist vs EEEE)
- Epistemology of music
- how do we know?
- what is the content of knowing? Propositional?
Problems:
- Many views/metaphors
- Role of Consciousness in Expertise
- Zombies?
- Skillful coping vs habitual coping?
- Skill, Habit, Expertise
- Linear learning
- Conceptual bias (positivism, psychologism, scientism)
- Over-generalisation
- Learning Theories
What do we know about music? Sources
- 19/20th century theorisations of Western classical music