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  1. Nov 4, 2014 · Focusing on Andrew Kania's recent definition of music, I argue that the way in which it has been developed leads to problems, and I show that a number of other definitions of interest to philosophers of art (and others) run into similar problems.

  2. The best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (formerly the Concise dictionary) provides clear, concise, and often witty definitions of the most troublesome literary terms from abjection to zeugma.

  3. Music (definitions of) In this entry I discuss three topics: the options for defining what music essentially is, features often common to the music of different cultures, and music's possible origins.

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  4. There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun plain-spokenness. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

  5. Nov 2, 2018 · But what about books like All Quiet on The Western Front, Ernest Hemingway’s novels that are known to never set you off looking for a dictionary, and even Bob Dylan lyrics — The kind of works that are plain and straightforwardly spoken, but still deemed as literature? Now you see the gist of why it’s such an endless debate.

  6. Feb 4, 2013 · Audiences interpret art and music, and audience interpretation involves decisions about which properties belong to the works being interpreted and which belong only to a particular performance of that work.

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  8. PLAIN-SPOKEN definition: 1. saying clearly and honestly what you think without trying to be polite: 2. saying clearly and…. Learn more.