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The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works : An Essay in the Philosophy of Music

Author : Lydia Goehr
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191520012
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works : An Essay in the Philosophy of Music written by Lydia Goehr and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1992-03-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the difference between a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and the symphony itself? What does it mean for musicians to be faithful to the works they perform? To answer such questions, Lydia Goehr combines philosophical and historical methods of enquiry. Finding Anglo-American philosophy inadequate for the task, she shows that a historical perspective is indispensable to a full understanding of musical ontology. Goehr examines the concepts and assumptions behind the practice of classical music in the nineteenth century and demonstrates how different they were from those of previous centuries. She rejects the finding that the concept of a musical work emerged in the sixteenth century, placing its emergence instead around 1800. She describes how the concept of a work then came to define the norms, expectations, and behaviour that we now associate with classical music. Out of the historical thesis Goehr draws philosophical conclusions about the normative functions of concepts and ideals. She also addresses current debates among conductors, early music performers, and avant-gardists. - ;Introduction; I. The Analytic Approach: Status and identity: Analytical positions I; Analytical positions II; Critique and transition; II. The Historical Approach: Normativity and Practice: The central claim; Musical meaning I; Musical meaning II; Musical production I; Musical production II; Werktreue: Confirmation and challenge -

Elective Affinities

Author : Lydia Goehr
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231144803
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book Elective Affinities written by Lydia Goehr and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name, elective affinities are powerful relationships that crystallize under changing conditions. In this new book, Lydia Goehr focuses on the history of elective affinities between philosophy and music from German classicism, romanticism, and idealism to the modernist aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno and Arthur C. Danto. Aesthetic theory, she argues, depends on a dynamic philosophy of history centered on tendencies, yearnings, needs, and potentialities. With this in mind, she recasts the theses of Adorno and Danto regarding the death or end of philosophy, art, music, and human experience as arguments for continuation and survival. Elective Affinities tracks the migration of aesthetic and critical theory from Germany to the United States following the catastrophic period of the twentieth century marked by the Second World War.

The Musical Work

Author : Michael Talbot
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781387753
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Musical Work written by Michael Talbot and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like literature and art, music has ‘works’. But not every piece of music is called a work, and not every musical performance is made up of works. The complexities of this situation are explored in these essays, which examine a broad swathe of western music. From plainsong to the symphony, from Duke Ellington to the Beatles, this is at root an investigation into how our minds parcel up the music that we create and hear.

Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread

Author : Lydia Goehr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197572448
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread written by Lydia Goehr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profoundly original philosophical detective story tracing the surprising history of an anecdote ranging across centuries of traditions, disciplines, and ideas Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread is a work of passages taken, written, painted, and sung. It offers a genealogy of liberty through a micrology of wit. It follows the long history of a short anecdote. Commissioned to depict the biblical passage through the Red Sea, a painter covered over a surface with red paint, explaining thereafter that the Israelites had already crossed over and that the Egyptians were drowned. Clearly, not all you see is all you get. Who was the painter and who the first teller of the tale? Designed as a philosophical detective story, Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread follows the extraordinary number of thinkers and artists who have used the Red Sea anecdote to make so much more than a merely anecdotal point. Leading the large cast are the philosophers, Arthur Danto and Søren Kierkegaard, the poet and playwright, Henri Murger, the opera composer, Giacomo Puccini, and the painter and print-maker, William Hogarth. Strange companions perhaps, until their use of the anecdote is shown as working its extraordinary passage through so many cosmopolitan cities of art and capital. What about the anecdote brings Danto's philosophy of art into conversation with Kierkegaard's stages on life's way, with Murger and Puccini's la vie de bohème, and with Hogarth's modern moral pictures? Lydia Goehr explores these narratives of emancipation in philosophy, theology, politics, and the arts. What has the passage of the Israelites to do with the Egyptians who, by many gypsy names, came to be branded as bohemians when arriving in France from the German lands of Bohemia? What have Moses and monotheism to do with the history of monism and the monochrome? And what sort of thread connects a sea to a square when each is so purposefully named red?

Musical ontology

Author : Lisa Giombini
Publisher : Mimesis
ISBN 13 : 8869771539
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Musical ontology written by Lisa Giombini and published by Mimesis. This book was released on 2018-01-25T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is musical ontology? Why should we as philosophers address it, if ever? These questions constitute the Ariadne’s thread running throughout this whole work. The number of papers, volumes and essays that have recently been dedicated to the topic of art and musical ontology is so vast that trying to get a grip on the debate seems like trying to find ones bearings without a compass. This book is a guide to help hapless readers find their way through this philosophical jungle. It is constructed on three levels: the presentation of the debate on musical ontology, a meta-ontological inquiry and a sort of meta-meta-ontological overview, in which both the ontological and the meta-ontological are examined. It does not contain any apology for musical ontology, nor any attempt to definitively get it off the hook. The approach is aporetic, in the spirit of an open investigation in which more questions than answers are posited. But this is the whole point. If this study manages to provide the readers with the necessary theoretical tools to answer these questions for themselves, it could be considered a success.

Themes in the Philosophy of Music

Author : Stephen Davies
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191529141
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Themes in the Philosophy of Music written by Stephen Davies and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2003-01-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing Stephen Davies's best shorter writings, these essays outline developments within the philosophy of music over the last two decades, and summarize the state of play at the beginning of a new century. Including two new and previously unpublished pieces, they address both perennial questions and contemporary controversies, such as that over the 'authentic performance' movement, and the impact of modern technology on the presentation and reception of musical works. Rather than attempting to reduce musical works to a single type, Davies recognizes a great variety of kinds, and a complementary range of possibilities for their rendition. Among the questions that Davies considers are these: How can expressiveness be in a musical work when music experiences nothing? Is music a language of the emotions? How do recorded pop songs and purely electronic pieces differ from works created for live performance? Is John Cage's silent piece, 4'33", music? To what extent is the performer free to create her own interpretation and to what extent is she constrained by the composer's score? Is training in musical technicalities a prerequisite for a full appreciation of musical works and performances? Is an awareness of the socio-historical setting in which a work is created relevant to its appreciation? How does the value of individual musical works go beyond the worth of an interest in music in general? Stimulating and insightful both as individual discussions and as a coherent argument, these essays will be greatly enjoyed by philosophers, aestheticians, art theorists, and musicologists.

The Quest for Voice

Author : Lydia Goehr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198166962
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Voice written by Lydia Goehr and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on the music, politics, and philosophy of Richard Wagner, Lydia Goehr addresses some fundamental questions of German Romanticism: Is all music musical? Is music made less musical by the presence of words? What is musical autonomy? How do composers avoid censorship? How are composers affected by exile? Can music articulate a 'politics for the future'? What is the relation between music and philosophy?

Critical Models

Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231135047
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Critical Models written by Theodor W. Adorno and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Critical Models' combines two of Adorno's most important postwar works - 'Interventions' and 'Catchwords"--And addresses issues such as the dangers of ideological conformity, the fragility of democracy, educational reform, the influence of television and radio and the aftermath and continuity of racism.

Music: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Nicholas Cook
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191606413
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Music: A Very Short Introduction written by Nicholas Cook and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-02-24 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stimulating Very Short Introduction to music invites us to really think about music and the values and qualities we ascribe to it. The world teems with different kinds of music-traditional, folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop-and each type of music tends to come with its own way of thinking. Drawing on a wealth of accessible examples ranging from Beethoven to Chinese zither music, Nicholas Cook attempts to provide a framework for thinking about all music. By examining the personal, social, and cultural values that music embodies, the book reveals the shortcomings of traditional conceptions of music, and sketches a more inclusive approach emphasizing the role of performers and listeners. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Esthetics of Music

Author : Carl Dahlhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521280075
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Esthetics of Music written by Carl Dahlhaus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-02-25 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of developments in the aesthetics of music from the mid-eighteenth century onwards.

The Don Giovanni Moment

Author : Lydia Goehr
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231510640
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Don Giovanni Moment written by Lydia Goehr and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. The Don Giovanni Moment is the first book to examine the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's opera in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the nineteenth century. The prominent scholars in this collection address the opera's impact on the philosophical visions of Kierkegaard, Goethe, and Williams and its influence on the literary and dramatic works of Pushkin, Hoffmann, Mörike, Byron, Wagner, Strauss, and Shaw. Through a close and careful analysis of Don Giovanni's literary and philosophical reception and its many appropriations, rewritings, and retellings, these contributors treat the opera as a vantage point from which theory and philosophy can reconsider romanticism's central themes. As lively and passionate as the opera itself, these essays continue the spirited debate over the meaning and character of Don Giovanni and its powerful legacy. Together they prove that Mozart's brilliant artistic achievement is as potent and relevant today as when it was first performed two centuries ago.

The Poetics of Rock

Author : Albin Zak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520232240
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Rock written by Albin Zak and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-11-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a fascinating exploration of recording consciousness and compositional process from the perspective of those who make records.

Elective Affinities

Author : Lydia Goehr
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231144814
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Elective Affinities written by Lydia Goehr and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name, elective affinities are powerful relationships that crystallize under changing conditions. In this new book, Lydia Goehr focuses on the history of elective affinities between philosophy and music from German classicism, romanticism, and idealism to the modernist aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno and Arthur C. Danto. Aesthetic theory, she argues, depends on a dynamic philosophy of history centered on tendencies, yearnings, needs, and potentialities. With this in mind, she recasts the theses of Adorno and Danto regarding the death or end of philosophy, art, music, and human experience as arguments for continuation and survival. Elective Affinities tracks the migration of aesthetic and critical theory from Germany to the United States following the catastrophic period of the twentieth century marked by the Second World War.

Virtual Works ??? Actual Things

Author : Paulo de Assis
Publisher : Orpheus Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789462701403
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Works ??? Actual Things written by Paulo de Assis and published by Orpheus Institute. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are musical works? How are they constructed in our minds? Which material things allow us to speak about them in the first place? Does a specific way of conceiving musical works limit their performative potentials? Which alternative, more productive images of musical work can be devised? Virtual Works--Actual Things addresses contemporary music ontological discourses, challenging dominant musicological accounts, questioning their authoritative foundation and moving towards dynamic perspectives devised by music practitioners and artist researchers. Specific attention is given to the relationship between the virtual multiplicities that enable the construction of an image of a musical work and the actual, concrete materials that make such a construction possible. With contributions by prominent scholars, this book is a wide-ranging and fascinating collection of essays, which will be of great interest for artistic research, contemporary musicology, music philosophy, performance studies and music pedagogy alike. Contributors: David Davies (McGill University, Montreal), Andreas Dorschel (University of the Arts Graz), Lydia Goehr (Columbia University, New York), Kathy Kiloh (OCAD University, Toronto), Jake McNulty (Columbia University, New York), Gunnar Hindrichs (University of Basel), John Rink (University of Cambridge)

The Normativity of Musical Works: A Philosophical Inquiry

Author : Alessandro Arbo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004462775
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Normativity of Musical Works: A Philosophical Inquiry written by Alessandro Arbo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essay advocates a theory of the musical work as a “social object” which is based on a trace informed by a normative value. Such a normativity is explored in relation to three ways of fixing the trace: orality, notation and phonography.

The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue

Author : Bruce Ellis Benson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521009324
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue written by Bruce Ellis Benson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an important contribution to the philosophy of music. Bruce Benson's concern is the phenomenology of music making as an activity. He offers a radical thesis that it is improvisation that is primary in the moment of music making.It will be a provocative read.

The Quest for Voice

Author : Lydia Goehr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520214125
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Voice written by Lydia Goehr and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the work of a distinguished philosopher and a well-trained musician with a sophisticated sense of history. If the musical and the musicological world were inhabited by Goehrs, it would be a far, far better place. The message of this book deserves the widest possible dissemination."--Richard Taruskin, author of Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions