Matteo Ravasio
Biographic Data
| ID | 981233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matteo Ravasio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matteo |
| FAMILY NAME | Ravasio |
| SIGNATURE | RAVASIO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peking University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1979-1140 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Resemblance theories of musical expressiveness
Resemblance theories are a popular way of accounting for music’s capacity to be expressive of emotions. According to such theories, musical expressiveness depends on a perceived resemblance between music and human expressive behavior, both vocal (prosodic features, expressive vocalizations), and bodily (gestures, posture, deportment). This article asks whether the available evidence from the field of music psychology supports resemblance theories…
Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life
Engineering Human Beauty
Individual differences in bodily beauty result in significant differences in life outcomes. Some such differences seem unwarranted. On this basis, various authors have argued that there is a kind of discrimination—lookism—that affects those who are aesthetically disadvantaged. Several strategies have been proposed to address lookism. One aim of this paper is to draw a distinction between two sorts of anti-lookist strategies. Redistributive approa…
Improvisational mistakes
This paper discusses mistakes that occur in improvised musical performance. I first develop a couple of distinctions that are useful to understand the varied nature of such mistakes. Particularly, I think that it is important to distinguish mistakes that depend upon formal features of the music, and mistakes that are such in virtue of a failure of the performer’s intentions. Within this latter category, I argue that it is useful to distinguish be…
The Philosophy of Rhythm
The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics PETER CHEYNE, ANDY HAMILTON AND MAX PADDISON (EDS) oup. 2020. pp. 432. £29.99 (pbk) Matteo Ravasio Matteo Ravasio Peking University [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1979-1140 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 61, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 26…
Imagination, Music, and the Emotions
Saam Trivedi has been a prominent figure in the analytic philosophy of music for a number of years. In his recent book Imagination, Music, and the Emotions: A Philosophical Study, he offers a summary of his criticism of available views and puts forward an alternative proposal based on the idea that the experience of musical expressiveness centrally involves imagination. Most of the book is occupied by the careful examination and rejection of alte…
Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation. Seeing-as and Seeing-in
This collection of essays deals with the complicated issue of double-aspect perception and its relation to pictorial representation. The book is constituted by independent contributions that trace the concepts of seeing-as and seeing-in to their origins in the writings of Wittgenstein and Wollheim. Although most of the contributions engage substantially in textual analysis and quote sources at length, it would be a mistake to regard the book as p…
On the destruction of musical instruments
In this article, I aim to provide an account of the peculiar reasons that motivate our negative reaction whenever we see musical instruments being mistreated and destroyed. Stephen Davies has suggested that this happens because we seem to treat musical instruments as we treat human beings, at least in some relevant respects. I argue in favour of a different explanation, one that is based on the nature of music as an art form. The main idea behind…
Imagination, Music, and the Emotions
Saam Trivedi has been a prominent figure in the analytic philosophy of music for a number of years. In his recent book Imagination, Music, and the Emotions: A Philosophical Study, he offers a summary of his criticism of available views and puts forward an alternative proposal based on the idea that the experience of musical expressiveness centrally involves imagination. Most of the book is occupied by the careful examination and rejection of alte…
Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life
The Philosophy of Rhythm
The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics PETER CHEYNE, ANDY HAMILTON AND MAX PADDISON (EDS) oup. 2020. pp. 432. £29.99 (pbk) Matteo Ravasio Matteo Ravasio Peking University [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1979-1140 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 61, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 26…
On the destruction of musical instruments
In this article, I aim to provide an account of the peculiar reasons that motivate our negative reaction whenever we see musical instruments being mistreated and destroyed. Stephen Davies has suggested that this happens because we seem to treat musical instruments as we treat human beings, at least in some relevant respects. I argue in favour of a different explanation, one that is based on the nature of music as an art form. The main idea behind…
Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation. Seeing-as and Seeing-in
This collection of essays deals with the complicated issue of double-aspect perception and its relation to pictorial representation. The book is constituted by independent contributions that trace the concepts of seeing-as and seeing-in to their origins in the writings of Wittgenstein and Wollheim. Although most of the contributions engage substantially in textual analysis and quote sources at length, it would be a mistake to regard the book as p…
Imagination, Music, and the Emotions
Saam Trivedi has been a prominent figure in the analytic philosophy of music for a number of years. In his recent book Imagination, Music, and the Emotions: A Philosophical Study, he offers a summary of his criticism of available views and puts forward an alternative proposal based on the idea that the experience of musical expressiveness centrally involves imagination. Most of the book is occupied by the careful examination and rejection of alte…
The Philosophy of Rhythm
The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics PETER CHEYNE, ANDY HAMILTON AND MAX PADDISON (EDS) oup. 2020. pp. 432. £29.99 (pbk) Matteo Ravasio Matteo Ravasio Peking University [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1979-1140 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 61, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 26…
Engineering Human Beauty
Individual differences in bodily beauty result in significant differences in life outcomes. Some such differences seem unwarranted. On this basis, various authors have argued that there is a kind of discrimination—lookism—that affects those who are aesthetically disadvantaged. Several strategies have been proposed to address lookism. One aim of this paper is to draw a distinction between two sorts of anti-lookist strategies. Redistributive approa…
Improvisational mistakes
This paper discusses mistakes that occur in improvised musical performance. I first develop a couple of distinctions that are useful to understand the varied nature of such mistakes. Particularly, I think that it is important to distinguish mistakes that depend upon formal features of the music, and mistakes that are such in virtue of a failure of the performer’s intentions. Within this latter category, I argue that it is useful to distinguish be…
Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life
Resemblance theories of musical expressiveness
Resemblance theories are a popular way of accounting for music’s capacity to be expressive of emotions. According to such theories, musical expressiveness depends on a perceived resemblance between music and human expressive behavior, both vocal (prosodic features, expressive vocalizations), and bodily (gestures, posture, deportment). This article asks whether the available evidence from the field of music psychology supports resemblance theories…
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