Constructing Musicology

Constructing Musicology
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 151
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ISBN-10 : 9781000152265
ISBN-13 : 100015226X
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Book Synopsis Constructing Musicology by : Alastair Williams

Download or read book Constructing Musicology written by Alastair Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-18 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001: Unlike many other academic disciplines, musicology has been somewhat reluctant to explore the possibilities that critical theory might offer to our understanding of music and the ways in which we study it. In recent years, however, both the general impact of theory on humanities research and the wider repertoires now studied on music degree courses have urged a paradigm shift in musicology. Looking at both these trends, Alastair Williams examines and explains the theoretical issues raised by different musics, including the Western canon, popular music, folk music and music by women. A theoretically informed musicology, he argues, can reflect on its own procedures and create strategies for particular problems as they arise. In this sense the book offers a musicology under construction. To appreciate how theoretical discourses function and the interests they serve, it is important to understand their roots. Chapter One begins with a presentation of traditional musicology in the context of Joseph Kerman's call for a shift from fact-finding to critical interpretation. Discussion then moves to the scrutiny of the bourgeois tradition by Adorno and Dahlhaus. Chapter Two explores Kerman's critique of structural analysis, together with the impact of poststructuralism on musicology. Awareness of new repertoire and its consequences becomes evident as the book unfolds, with Chapter Three considering music by women and examining how gender is constructed in music. Chapter Four extends this discussion to the field of popular music and the ways in which this genre negotiates identity. Challenges to the dominant values are further explored as Chapter Five looks at how non-European cultures are presented in European music and reflects on perceptions of self and other in ethnomusicology. Chapter Six charts the emergence of modern subjectivity and its formations in music, arguing that musicology should not lose sight of modernity's critical resources.

Music Makes the Nation

Music Makes the Nation
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Publisher : Cambria Press
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9781621968719
ISBN-13 : 1621968715
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Download or read book Music Makes the Nation written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Constructing Urban Space with Sounds and Music

Constructing Urban Space with Sounds and Music
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 137
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ISBN-10 : 9781317161387
ISBN-13 : 1317161386
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Book Synopsis Constructing Urban Space with Sounds and Music by : Ricciarda Belgiojoso

Download or read book Constructing Urban Space with Sounds and Music written by Ricciarda Belgiojoso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While we are used to looking around us, we are less used to listening to what happens around us. And yet, the noises we produce reveal our way of life, and learning to master them is a necessity. This book aims at drawing the reader’s attention to the sound of the urban environment. The topic is by its very nature complex, as it involves sounds and noises, urban space and social activities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it examines a heterogeneous selection of experimentations from the domains of music, art and architecture. Significant case studies of pieces of music, public art works and scientific research in the field of urban planning are analyzed, investigating the methods that have been adopted and the aural processes that have been generated. It then uses the findings to reconstruct the underlying theories and practices and to show what might be drawn from these procedures applied to urban planning. The overall objective is to learn to build and enrich space with sound, arguing that there is a need to reconsider architecture and urban planning beyond building, and to look to the world of the arts and other disciplines. In doing so, the book guides the reader toward a sensorial architecture, and more generally toward consciously creating environmental architecture which is sustainable and connects with art and which diffuses a culture of sound.

Making Music Modern

Making Music Modern
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 510
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ISBN-10 : 9780195162578
ISBN-13 : 0195162579
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Making Music Modern by : Carol J. Oja

Download or read book Making Music Modern written by Carol J. Oja and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recreates an exciting and productive period in which creative artists felt they were witnessing the birth of a new age. Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, George Gershwin, Roy Harris, and Virgil Thomson all began their careers then, as did many of their less widely recognized compatriots. While the literature and painting of the 1920's have been amply chronicled, music has not received such treatment. Carol Oja's book sets the growth of American musical composition against parallel developments in American culture, provides a guide for the understanding of the music, and explores how the notion of the concert tradition, as inherited from Western Europe, was challenged and revitalized through contact with American popular song, jazz, and non-Western musics.

Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning

Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 330
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ISBN-10 : 9781139431354
ISBN-13 : 1139431358
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Book Synopsis Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning by : Daniel Chua

Download or read book Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning written by Daniel Chua and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nineteenth century; secondly, it is a history of a music that claims to have no history - absolute music. The book therefore writes against that notion of absolute music which tends to be the paradigm for most musicological and analytical studies. It is concerned not so much with what music is, but with why and how meaning is constructed in instrumental music and what structures of knowledge need to be in place for such meaning to exist. From the thought of Vincenzo Galilei to that of Theodore Adorno, Daniel Chua suggests that instrumental music has always been a critical and negative force in modernity, even with its nineteenth-century apotheosis as 'absolute music'.

Hermeneutics and Music Criticism

Hermeneutics and Music Criticism
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : 9781135839246
ISBN-13 : 1135839247
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Hermeneutics and Music Criticism by : Roger W. H. Savage

Download or read book Hermeneutics and Music Criticism written by Roger W. H. Savage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermeneutics and Music Criticism forges new perspectives on aesthetics, politics and contemporary interpretive strategies. By advancing new insights into the roles judgment and imagination play both in our experiences of music and its critical interpretation, this book reevaluates our current understandings of music’s transformative power. The engagement with critical musicologists and philosophers, including Adorno, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, provides a nuanced analysis of the crucial issues affecting the theory and practice of music criticism. By challenging musical hermeneutics’ deployment as a means of deciphering social values and meanings, Hermeneutics and Music Criticism offers an answer to the long-standing question of how music’s expression of moods and feelings affects us and our relation to the world.

E.T.A. Hoffmann's Musical Aesthetics

E.T.A. Hoffmann's Musical Aesthetics
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 0754607062
ISBN-13 : 9780754607069
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Book Synopsis E.T.A. Hoffmann's Musical Aesthetics by : Abigail Chantler

Download or read book E.T.A. Hoffmann's Musical Aesthetics written by Abigail Chantler and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-18th and early-19th 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-19th-century Germany.