Of Mind And Music

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Summary: Philosopher's writing style gets in the way of ideas
Review: While this text is an interesting elaboration on ideas of Susanne Langer's ("Philosophy in a New Key") and others, the obtuse writing style, which unfortunately accompanies many philosophical comtemplations of this sort (cf. "Language, Music and Mind," by Diana Raffman), gets in the way of the ideas which it presents. Addis, in fact, seems to go out of his way to make each sentence as tangential as possible, with as many parenthetic clauses as one might imagine. Those reservations aside, it fulfills its mission of presenting the author's interesting contemplations on music and the mind.