Phenomenology of Music and the Promise of Intentionality
The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music March 24, 2026 Benjamin Steege
Abstract This chapter introduces Edmund Husserl’s crucial notion of “intentionality” as it pertains to music. It develops a sense of the possibilities of phenomenological intentionality by focusing on applications in some significant early twentieth-century writings on music. The first section gives a broad overview of the notion, indicating how it might support novel theorizations of one’s...