Aesthetics Of Music

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527514904

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Musical Aesthetics by Jonathan L. Friedmann Pdf

This book contains six chapters covering key areas of musical aesthetics, including aesthetics of emotions; aesthetics of listening; aesthetics of performance; aesthetics of composition; aesthetics of nature; and aesthetics of commerce. Each chapter adopts an experiential approach to aesthetics, in which perceptual and intuitive musical responses – real-time experiences – are valued as a source of truth. Unlike intellectual aesthetics, which values conscious associations and meticulous artistic appraisals, experiential aesthetics looks primarily at everyday subconscious appreciations. The explorations here draw from the social sciences, hard sciences, philosophy, literature, theology, musicology, humanities, and other fields that directly or indirectly contribute to an understanding of our attraction to music. Presenting user-friendly distillations of numerous theories, concepts, and functions, this book will be of interest to both lay readers and expert practitioners.

Author : Stephen Downes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136486906

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Aesthetics of Music by Stephen Downes Pdf

Aesthetics of Music: Musicological Approaches is an anthology of fourteen essays, each addressing a single key concept or pair of terms in the aesthetics of music, collectively serving as an authoritative work on musical aesthetics that remains as close to 'the music' as possible. Each essay includes musical examples from works in the 18th, 19th, and into the 20th century. Topics have been selected from amongst widely recognised central issues in musical aesthetics, as well as those that have been somewhat neglected, to create a collection that covers a distinctive range of ideas. All essays cover historical origins, sources, and developments of the chosen idea, survey important musicological approaches, and offer new critical angles or musical case studies in interpretation.

Author : Edward A. Lippman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0803279841

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The Philosophy & Aesthetics of Music by Edward A. Lippman Pdf

Edward A. Lippman?s writings on musical aesthetics comprise a wide variety of areas and employ both systematic and historical approaches, reflecting throughout his unrivaled knowledge of the philosophical literature on music and his deep understanding of the musical repertory. These essays span a broad range of subjects, from the ancients? sense of what music encompasses to the experience of rhythm in Anton Webern?s work. ø Lippman surveys the physical and physiological factors that condition musical perception, and he explores the effect of sung text in vocal music. In the more purely philosophical realm, he argues persuasively that music speaks in its own terms, not in any formalistic sense but through the symbolic meanings it conveys. ø The historically focused essays include investigations of the aesthetic thinking of Wagner and Schumann, an endeavor that leads Lippman to probe the sources and drives behind musical creativity. Elsewhere he explores the development of particular musical styles. The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Music draws upon both philosophy and musicology in demonstrating how the interpretation of music extends far beyond the scope of conventional theory and analysis.

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780198167273

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The Aesthetics of Music by Roger Scruton Pdf

What is music, what is its value, and what does it mean? In this stimulating volume, Roger Scruton offers a comprehensive account of the nature and significance of music from the perspective of modern philosophy. The study begins with the metaphysics of sound. Scruton 7istinguishes sound from tone; analyzes rhythm, melody, and harmony; and explores the various dimensions of musical organization and musical meaning. Taking on various fashionable theories in the philosophy and theory of music, he presents a compelling case for the moral significance of music, its place in our culture, and the need for taste and discrimination in performing and listening to it. Laying down principles for musical analysis and criticism, this bold work concludes with a theory of culture--and a devastating demolition of modern popular music. "A provocative new study."--The Guardian

Author : Jonathan Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317297970

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Reification and the Aesthetics of Music by Jonathan Lewis Pdf

This innovative study re-evaluates the philosophical significance of aesthetics in the context of contemporary debates on the nature of philosophy. Lewis's main argument is that contemporary conceptions of meaning and truth have been reified, and that aesthetics is able to articulate why this is the case, with important consequences for understanding the horizons and nature of philosophical inquiry. Reification and the Aesthetics of Music challenges the most emphatic and problematic conceptions of meaning and truth in both analytic philosophy and postmodern thought by acknowledging the ontological and logical primacy of our concrete, practice-based experiences with aesthetic phenomena. By engaging with a variety of aesthetic practices, including Beethoven's symphonies and string quartets, Wagner's music dramas, Richard Strauss's Elektra, the twentieth-century avant-garde, Jamaican soundsystem culture, and punk and contemporary noise, this book demonstrates the aesthetic relevance of reification as well as the concept's applicability to contemporary debates within philosophy.

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003269672

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The Aesthetics of Architecture by Roger Scruton Pdf

Author : Max Paddison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521626080

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Adorno's Aesthetics of Music by Max Paddison Pdf

This introduction to the aesthetics and sociology of music of the German philosopher and music theorist T. W. Adorno is the only book to deal comprehensively with this topic and it has quickly established itself as a classic text.

Author : Denis Collins,Klisala Harrison,Samantha Owens
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781443802307

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Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance by Denis Collins,Klisala Harrison,Samantha Owens Pdf

Drawing upon a wide range of scholarly enquiry into early music, queer musicology, ethnomusicology, performance practice, music education and technology, Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance provides a lively forum for the articulation of varied perspectives on the role of music, its interpretation and function in contexts supported by those who practice or experience it. The formal and shorter discussion papers included in this scholarly collection were presented at the National Workshop of the Musicological Society of Australia, held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane in October 2003. The themes of aesthetics and experience are central to this publication and each paper engages in a scholarly dialogue on the technical, expressive and embodied aspects of performance. The papers included in this publication bring together the research of a wide community of scholars (e.g., musicologists, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists and linguists) working in the field of performance studies and collectively reflect the musicological issues being debated in Australia today.

Author : Kathleen Coessens
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789462701847

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Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices by Kathleen Coessens Pdf

Embodied experience and sensorial understandings in Western music The Western history of aesthetics is characterised by tension between theory and practice. Musicians listen, play, and then listen more profoundly in order to play differently, adapt the body, and sense the environment. They become deeply involved in the sensorial qualities of music practice. Artistic practice refers to the original meaning of aesthetics—the senses. Whereas Baumgarten and Goethe explored the relationship between sensibility and reason, sensation and thinking, later philosophers of aesthetics deemed the sensorial to be confused and unreliable and instead prioritised a cognitive or objective approach. Written by authors from the fields of philosophy, composition, performance, and artistic practice, Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices repositions aesthetics as a domain of the sensible and explores the interaction between artists, life, and environment. Aesthetics becomes a field of sensorial and embodied experience involving temporal and spatial influences, implicit knowledge, and human characteristics. Contributors: Kathleen Coessens (Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, Orpheus Institute), Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen), Michaël Levinas (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris), Fabien Lévy (Hochschule für Musik Detmold), Lasse Thoresen (Norwegian Academy of Music), Vanessa Tomlinson (Queensland Conservatorium of Music), Salomé Voegelin (University of the Arts London)

Author : Joanna Demers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199774487

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Listening through the Noise by Joanna Demers Pdf

Contemporary electronic music has splintered into numerous genres and subgenres, all of which share a concern with whether sound, in itself, bears meaning. Listening through the Noise considers how the experience of listening to electronic music constitutes a departure from the expectations that have long governed music listening in the West.

Author : Andy Hamilton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826485182

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Aesthetics and Music by Andy Hamilton Pdf

An engaging but sophisticated look at the debates and ideas involved in the aesthetics of music - part of a major new series from Continuum.

Author : Karol Berger,Anthony Newcomb
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015061451574

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Music and the Aesthetics of Modernity by Karol Berger,Anthony Newcomb Pdf

This book encourages a debate over musical modernity; a debate considering the question whether an examination of the history of European art music may enrich our picture of modernity and whether our understanding of music's development may be transformed by insights into the nature of modernity provided by other historical disciplines.

Author : Johann Georg Sulzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521360357

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Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment by Johann Georg Sulzer Pdf

Can an abstract theory of Empfindsamkeit aesthetics have any value to a musician wishing to study composition in the classical style? The eighteenth-century German theorist and pedagogue Heinrich Koch showed how this question could be answered with a resounding yes. Starting with the systematic aesthetic theory of the Swiss encyclopedist Johann Sulzer, Koch was creatively able to adapt Sulzer's conservative ideas on ethical mimesis and rhetoric to concrete problems of music analysis and composition. In this collaborative study, Thomas Christensen and Nancy Baker have translated and analysed selected writings of Sulzer and Koch respectively, bringing to life a little-known confluence of philosophical and musical thought from the German Enlightenment. Koch's appropriation of Sulzer's ideas to the service of music represents an important development in the evolution of Western musical thought.

Author : Holly Watkins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226594705

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Musical Vitalities by Holly Watkins Pdf

Does it make sense to refer to bird song—a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate—as art? What about a pack of wolves howling in unison or the cacophony made by an entire rain forest? Redefining music as “the art of possibly animate things,” Musical Vitalities charts a new path for music studies that blends musicological methods with perspectives drawn from the life sciences. In opposition to humanist approaches that insist on a separation between culture and nature—approaches that appear increasingly untenable in an era defined by human-generated climate change—Musical Vitalities treats music as one example of the cultural practices and biotic arts of the animal kingdom rather than as a phenomenon categorically distinct from nonhuman forms of sonic expression. The book challenges the human exceptionalism that has allowed musicologists to overlook music’s structural resemblances to the songs of nonhuman species, the intricacies of music’s physiological impact on listeners, and the many analogues between music’s formal processes and those of the dynamic natural world. Through close readings of Austro-German music and aesthetic writings that suggest wide-ranging analogies between music and nature, Musical Vitalities seeks to both rekindle the critical potential of nineteenth-century music and rejoin the humans at the center of the humanities with the nonhumans whose evolutionary endowments and planetary fates they share.

Author : Carol Vernallis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780231508452

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Experiencing Music Video by Carol Vernallis Pdf

Music videos have ranged from simple tableaux of a band playing its instruments to multimillion dollar, high-concept extravaganzas. Born of a sudden expansion in new broadcast channels, music videos continue to exert an enormous influence on popular music. They help to create an artist's identity, to affect a song's mood, to determine chart success: the music video has changed our idea of the popular song. Here at last is a study that treats music video as a distinct multimedia artistic genre, different from film, television, and indeed from the songs they illuminate—and sell. Carol Vernallis describes how verbal, musical, and visual codes combine in music video to create defining representations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and performance. The book explores the complex interactions of narrative, settings, props, costumes, lyrics, and much more. Three chapters contain close analyses of important videos: Madonna's "Cherish," Prince's "Gett Off," and Peter Gabriel's "Mercy St."