Introduction
The type/token theory introduced
Motivating the type/token theory : repeatability
Nominalist approaches to the ontology of music
Musical anti-realism
The type/token theory elaborated
Types I : abstract, unstructured, unchanging
Types introduced and nominalism repelled
Types as abstracta
Types as unstructured entities
Types as fixed and unchanging
Types II : platonism
Introduction : eternal existence and timelessness
Types and properties
The eternal existence of properties reconsidered
Types and patterns
Defending the type/token theory I
Unstructuredness and analogical predication
Musical works as fixed and unchanging
Abstractness and audibility (again)
Works and interpretations
Conclusion and resumé
Defending the type/token theory II : musical platonism
Platonism it is : replies to Anderson and Levinson
The existence conditions of works of music
Composition as creative discovery
The nature of the compositional process : replies to objections
Composition and aesthetic appraisal : a reply to Levinson
Composition and aesthetic appraisal : understanding, interpretation, and correctness
Musical works as continuants : a theory rejected
A theory introduced
Explicating and motivating the continuant view
The continuant view and repeatability
Further objections to the continuant view
Musical works as compositional actions : a critique
Currie's action-type hypothesis
Davies's performance theory
Sonicism I : against instrumentalism
Sonicism introduced
Sonicism motivated : moderate empiricism
Instrumentation : timbral sonicism introduced
Scores
Instrumentation, artistic properties, and aesthetic content
Levinson's rejoinder
Sonicism II : against contextualism
Introduction : formulating contextualism
Contextualist ontological proposals
Levinson's doppelgänger thought-experiments
Artistic, representational, and object-directed expressive properties
Aesthetic and non-object-directed expressive properties
Conclusion : the place of context.
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