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Author : Aaron Copland (American composer, writer on music, pianist, conductor and teacher)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1415153853
Author : Saam Trivedi
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438467177
Articulates an imaginationist solution to the question of how purely instrumental music can be perceived by a listener as having emotional content. Both musicians and laypersons can perceive purely instrumental music without words or an associated story or program as expressing emotions such as happiness and sadness. But how? In this book, Saam Trivedi discusses and critiques the leading philosophical approaches to this question, including formalism, metaphorism, expression theories, arousalism, resemblance theories, and persona theories. Finding these to be inadequate, he advocates an imaginationist solution, by which absolute music is not really or literally sad but is only imagined to be so in a variety of ways. In particular, he argues that we as listeners animate the music ourselves, imaginatively projecting life and mental states onto it. Bolstering his argument with empirical data from studies in neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science, Trivedi also addresses and explores larger philosophical questions such as the nature of emotions, metaphors, and imagination.
Author : Nicholas Cook
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198163037
Musicians imagine music by means of functional models which determine certain aspects of the music while leaving others open. This gap between image and the experience it models offers a source of compositional creativity; different musical cultures embody different ways of imagining sound as music. Drawing on psychological and philosophical materials as well as the analysis of specific musical examples, Cook here defines the difference between music theory and aesthetic criticism, and affirms the importance of the "ordinary listener" in musical culture.
Author : Ronald M. Radano,Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0226701999
"A specter lurks in the house of music, and it goes by the name of race," write Ronald Radano and Philip Bohlman in their introduction. Yet the intimate relationship between race and music has rarely been examined by contemporary scholars, most of whom have abandoned it for the more enlightened notions of ethnicity and culture. Here, a distinguished group of contributors confront the issue head on. Representing an unusually broad range of academic disciplines and geographic regions, they critically examine how the imagination of race has influenced musical production, reception, and scholarly analysis, even as they reject the objectivity of the concept itself. Each essay follows the lead of the substantial introduction, which reviews the history of race in European and American, non-Western and global musics, placing it within the contexts of the colonial experience and the more recent formation of "world music." Offering a bold, new revisionist agenda for musicology in a postmodern, postcolonial world, this book will appeal to students of culture and race across the humanities and social sciences.
Author : Maria Elena Cepeda
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814716922
Long associated with the pejorative cliches of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. This study of the Miami music industry and Miami's growing Colombian community asserts that popular music provides an alternative common space for imagining and enacting Colombian identity.
Author : Aaron Copland
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Music
ISBN : 0674589157
Describes the all important role of the imagination in the composition, performance, appreciation and intelligent comprehension of music and surveys its influence on contemporary music.
Author : Leo Treitler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0674591291
Leo Treitler is a central figure in American musicology, both for his writings on medieval and Renaissance music and for his influential work on historical analysis. In this elegant book he develops a powerful statement of what music analysis and criticism in relation to historical understanding can be. His aim is an understanding of the music of the past not only in its own historical context but also as we apprehend it now, and as we assimilate it to our current interests and concerns. He elucidates his views through unique new interpretations of major works from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.
Author : Kofi Agawu,Victor Kofi Agawu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190263201
The African Imagination in Music offers a fresh introduction to the vast and complex world of Sub-Saharan African music. Through close readings of traditional music and references to popular music, Agawu considers topics including the place of music in society, musical instruments, language and music, and appropriations of African music.
Author : Robert Jourdain
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015035735375
At the evolution of music and introduces surprising new concepts of memory and perception, knowledge and attention, motion and emotion, all at work as music takes hold of us. Along the way, a fascinating cast of characters brings Jourdain's narrative to vivid life: "idiots savants" who absorb whole pieces on a single hearing, composers who hallucinate entire compositions, a psychic who claimed to take dictation from long-dead composers, and victims of brain damage who.
Author : Alan Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000374766
Aimed at lay, student, and academic readers alike, this book concerns the imagination and, specifically, imagination in music. It opens with a discussion of the invalidity of the idea of the creative genius and the connected view that ideas originate just in the individual mind. An alternative view of the imaginative process is then presented, that ideas spring from a subconscious dialogue activated by engagement in the world around. Ideas are therefore never just of our own making. This view is supported by evidence from many studies and corresponds with descriptions by artists of their experience of imagining. The third subject is how imaginations can be shared when musicians work with other artists, and the way the constraints imposed by trying to share subconscious imagining result in clearly distinct forms of joint working. The final chapter covers the use of the musical imagination in making meanings from music. The evidence is that music does not communicate meanings directly, and so composers or performers cannot be looked to as authorities on its meaning. Instead, music is commonly heard as analogous to human experience, and listeners who perceive such analogies may then imagine their own meanings from the music.
Author : William Cheng
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199970001
Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music-making to vocal sexual harassment. William Cheng shows how video games empower their designers, composers, players, critics, and scholars to tinker (often transgressively) with practices and discourses of music, noise, speech, and silence. Faced with collisions between utopian and alarmist stereotypes of video games, Sound Play synthesizes insights across musicology, sociology, anthropology, communications, literary theory, philosophy, and additional disciplines. With case studies spanning Final Fantasy VI, Silent Hill, Fallout 3, The Lord of the Rings Online, and Team Fortress 2, this book insists that what we do in there-in the safe, sound spaces of games-can ultimately teach us a great deal about who we are and what we value (musically, culturally, humanly) out here. Foreword by Richard Leppert Video Games Live cover image printed with permission from Tommy Tallarico
Author : Richard Steinitz
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571261116
An illuminating study of the life and work of György Ligeti, one of the best-loved and most original composers of our time. For 50 years György Ligeti has pursued a boldly independent and uncompromising course, yet his music is widely loved and admired. Ever since Stanley Kubrick's (unsanctioned) use of his music on the soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey, interest in Ligeti has extended far beyond the classical domain. He is the only living composer whose complete output, including juvenilia, is being systematically issued on CD. Published to coincide with the composer's eightieth birthday, Richard Steinitz's compelling new book is both an illuminating study of the music and its associative ideas - drawn from literature, theatre, the visual arts, fractal mathematics, ethnic cultures and other maverick composers - and of Ligeti the man. Ligeti has confided in Steinitz a mass of previously unknown biographical information. The result is an astonishing account of his early upbringing in Romania, of his terrifying yet surreal experiences in the war, and of his difficulties attempting to forge an identity as a young composer under repressive censorship in Communist Hungary, before his dramatic escape to the West in 1956. The story continues via Ligeti's association with the Western avant-garde and his increasingly masterful sequence of highly individual compositions, which Steinitz brings vividly to life through informative commentaries as well as through the composer's own words.
Author : C. Randall Bradley
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780802865939
The relatively recent "worship wars" over styles of worship — traditional, contemporary, or blended — have calmed down, and many churches have now reached decisions about which "worship style" defines them. At a more fundamental level, however, change has yet to begin. In From Memory to Imagination Randall Bradley argues that fallout from the worship wars needs to be cleaned up and that fundamental cultural changes — namely, the effects of postmodernism — call for new approaches to worship. Outlining imaginative ways for the church to move forward, this book is a must-read for church leaders and anyone interested in worship music.
Author : Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard,Mads Walther-Hansen,Martin Knakkergaard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190460181
Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context. For example, we can conjure an alien's scream from previously heard wildlife recordings or mentally rehearse a piece of music while waiting for a train. This process is no less true for the role of imagination in sonic events and artifacts. Many existing works on sonic imagination tend to discuss musical imagination through terms like compositional creativity or performance technique. In this two-volume Handbook, contributors shift the focus of imagination away from the visual by addressing the topic of sonic imagination and expanding the field beyond musical compositional creativity and performance technique into other aural arenas where the imagination holds similar power. Topics covered include auditory imagery and the neurology of sonic imagination; aural hallucination and illusion; use of metaphor in the recording studio; the projection of acoustic imagination in architectural design; and the design of sound artifacts for cinema and computer games.
Author : Peter Walls
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Incorporated
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 1843830051
Both a defence of research aiming to recover how music sounded in the past and an argument for the application of such historical research to performance.
