Time in Contemporary Musical Thought
Title | Time in Contemporary Musical Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan D. Kramer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2015-12-22 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1134350864 |
The articles in this collection create an interdisciplinary perspective. While attempting no unified vision, it approaches the subject from a variety of perspectives: aesthetics, psychology, sociology, ethnomusicology, compositional practice, and semiotics. While all composers are necessarily concerned with time, and while all theorists deal at least indirectly with music as a temporal phenomenon, the study of musical time has been fragmented. It is appropriate that no clear paradigm, model or direction has yet emerged in the study of muscial time, since time itself is both pervasive and elusive.
Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought
Title | Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought PDF eBook |
Author | John Paynter |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 616 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780415086950 |
Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought
Title | Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought PDF eBook |
Author | John Paynter |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis US |
Pages | 668 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780415086943 |
Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought
Title | Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Rehding |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2003-05-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1139436716 |
Generally acknowledged as the most important German musicologist of his age, Hugo Riemann (1849–1919) shaped the ideas of generations of music scholars, not least because his work coincided with the institutionalisation of academic musicology around the turn of the last century. This influence, however, belies the contentious idea at the heart of his musical thought, an idea he defended for most of his career - harmonic dualism. By situating Riemann's musical thought within turn-of-the-century discourses about the natural sciences, German nationhood and modern technology, this book reconstructs the cultural context in which Riemann's ideas not only 'made sense' but advanced an understanding of the tonal tradition as both natural and German. Riemann's musical thought - from his considerations of acoustical properties to his aesthetic and music-historical views - thus regains the coherence and cultural urgency that it once possessed.
Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment
Title | Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Christensen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2004-12-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 052161709X |
"Ranging widely over the musical and intellectual thought of the eighteenth century, Thomas Christensen orients Rameau's accomplishments in the light of contemporaneous traditions of music theory as well as many of the scientific ideas current in the French Enlightenment. Rameau is revealed to be an unsuspectedly syncretic and sophisticated thinker, betraying influences ranging from neoplatonic thought and Cartesian mechanistic metaphysics to Locke's empirical psychology and Newtonian experimental science. Additional primary documents and manuscripts (many revealed here for the first time) help clarify Rameau's fascinating and stormy relationship with the Encyclopedists: Diderot, Rousseau, and d'Alembert." "This book will be of value to all music theorists concerned with the foundations of harmonic tonality and it should also be of interest to scholars of eighteenth-century science, the Enlightenment, and the general history of ideas."--BOOK JACKET.
Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age
Title | Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Ioanna Kouvaras |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2016-05-13 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1317103831 |
The experimentalist phenomenon of 'noise' as constituting 'art' in much twentieth-century music (paradoxically) reached its zenith in Cage’s (’silent’ piece) 4’33 . But much post-1970s musical endeavour with an experimentalist telos, collectively known as 'sound art', has displayed a postmodern need to ’load’ modernism’s ’degree zero’. After contextualizing experimentalism from its inception in the early twentieth century, Dr Linda Kouvaras’s Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age explores the ways in which selected sound art works demonstrate creatively how sound is embedded within local, national, gendered and historical environments. Taking Australian music as its primary - but not sole - focus, the book not only covers discussions of technological advancement, but also engages with aesthetic standpoints, through numerous interviews, theoretical developments, analysis and cultural milieux for a contemporary Australian, and wider postmodern, context. Developing new methodologies for synergies between musicology and cultural studies, the book uncovers a new post-postmodern aesthetic trajectory, which Kouvaras locates as developing over the past two decades - the altermodern. Australian sound art is here put firmly on the map of international debates about contemporary music, providing a standard reference and valuable resource for practitioners in the artform, music critics, scholars and educators.
Music and the Cognitive Sciences 1990
Title | Music and the Cognitive Sciences 1990 PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Cross |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2004-08-02 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1135305773 |
This issue comprises the twenty-five papers presented at the Second Music and the Cognitive Sciences conference held at Cambridge University in 1990.