Musical Aesthetics

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : 52,6 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 : John Rahn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393965082

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Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics by John Rahn Pdf

The 30 lively and diverse essays brought together in this volume--all drawn from the journal PERSPECTIVE OF NEW MUSIC--suggest possible answers to the age-old question: Why does music affect us so strongly? The writers include many of the most prominent names in both modern music and aesthetic theory, including Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Eric Gans, Michel Foucault, and Delmore Schwartz.

Author : Edward A. Lippman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : John Murungi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Afrika
ISBN : 1443829277

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African Musical Aesthetics by John Murungi Pdf

In the West, philosophy is generally confined to the domain of the intellect, and music to the domain of the emotion. This book makes either domain the location for the other. African musical aesthetics constitutes this location, and has its home in it. Moreover, since the separation of the domain of the intellect and the domain of emotion represents a bifurcation of what it is to be a human being, and by making either domain the location of the other, what African musical aesthetics accomplishes is the affirmation of a unified sense of what it is to be a human being. Accordingly, the unity of philosophy and music give rises to a unified sense of being human. It is to such unity that African musical aesthetics takes us. For African musical aesthetics to accomplish this task, this book challenges the conventional Western understanding of philosophyâ "an understanding that projects Africa as devoid of philosophy. It is this projection that pervaded Africa during the colonial period, and it is the projection that is challenged in African philosophy. From an African philosophical perspective African musical aesthetics turns out to be an emancipatory process that seeks to affirm the humanity of Africans but also a process that seeks to affirm common humanity. Music is not solely a matter of audiology, what is played, or what one dances to. It has its elemental task in calling our attention to what we are as human beings. In so far as it is sensuous, it constitutes us as members of the sensible world, and links us intrinsically to all that is sensuous. It is more than humanism. Music registers us as members of nature. It is nature naturing.

Author : Abigail Chantler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351569118

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E.T.A. Hoffmann's Musical Aesthetics by Abigail Chantler Pdf

Whilst E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) is most widely known as the author of fantastic tales, he was also prolific as a music critic, productive as a composer, and active as a conductor. This book examines Hoffmann's aesthetic thought within the broader context of the history of ideas of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, and explores the relationship between his musical aesthetics and compositional practice. The first three chapters consider his ideas about creativity and aesthetic appreciation in relation to the thought of other German romantic theorists, discussing the central tenets of his musical aesthetic - the idea of a 'religion of art', of the composer as a 'genius', and the listener as a 'passive genius'. In particular the relationship between the multifaceted thought of Hoffmann and Friedrich Schleiermacher is explored, providing some insight into the way in which diverse intellectual traditions converged in early-nineteenth-century Germany. In the second half of the book, Hoffmann's dialectical view of music history and his conception of romantic opera are discussed in relation to his activities as a composer, with reference to his instrumental music and his two mature, large-scale operas, Aurora and Undine. The author also addresses broader issues pertaining to the ideological and historical significance of Hoffmann's musical and literary oeuvre.

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Johann Georg Sulzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Karol Berger,Anthony Newcomb
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Denis Collins,Klisala Harrison,Samantha Owens
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Max Paddison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Andy Hamilton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Brad Bucknell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521660289

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Literary Modernism and Musical Aesthetics by Brad Bucknell Pdf

Bucknell's study investigates how music, as a discrete artistic mode of expression and a recurring theme in the work of these four writers, reveals the intricate and varied nature of the modernist project."--Jacket.

Author : Jonathan Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Wilson Coker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Music
ISBN : MINN:31951002387111K

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Music & Meaning by Wilson Coker Pdf