" Rightness" has been the watchword of Michael Krausz's work over the past decade. Across
two books and a range of articles, Krausz has asked: which interpretation of a cultural text, if …

If we take the work of music and its performances as correlative concepts, just as a text and
its interpretations are correlative concepts, then how do the indefinitely many performances …

This volume collects twenty-one original essays that discuss Michael Krausz's distinctive
and provocative contribution to the theory of interpretation. At the beginning of the book …

Michael Krausz's limits of Rightness offers the rare combination of humane depth, cultural
breadth, and analytical precision. 1 Many discussions of interpretive pluralism in …

A. Krausz points out that his main purpose in Right-ness and Reasons2 is to argue for"
multiplism," the view that there characteristically are multiple" ideally admissible" …

Realism in music is often confused with naturalism and pictorialism. Because of this
confusion we do not find a proper discussion of realism, but only of naturalism and …

This volume looks at the symbiotic relationship between the philosophical inquiry into the
presuppositions of musical interpretation and the interpretation of particular musical works …

IN an earlier study'I have stated that" reference to the real world is present in all music". This
reference is what I term realism in music. Viewed in this comprehensive sense, the …

In this paper I attempt a brief analysis of the concept of 'authenticity'from musicological and
philosophical perspectives. This term bears important metaphysical presuppositions. A good …

Since analytic aesthetics began, around 50 years ago, music has perhaps been the art most
discussed by philosophers. The reasons for philosophers' attraction to music as a subject …