The Dialectics Of Music
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The Dialectics Of Music
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Author : Joseph Weiss
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-05-20
The Dialectics Of Music written by Joseph Weiss and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-20 with Philosophy categories.
Combining the philosophy and musicology of T.W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Gilles Deleuze, alongside an exploration of the dialectical character of music production, Joseph Weiss exposes the unresolved contradictions of contemporary music. By following the outermost mediations between nature, history, and technology, the book reflects on how advanced music critically responds to the ongoing catastrophe of both the Middle Passage and Auschwitz. Following what the author calls the “categorical imperative” of music, Weiss investigates the significance of a wide range of musical phenomena including the territorialization of the lullaby, the improvisation and sorrow song of the blues and jazz, as well as the cosmological limits of the electroacoustic avant-garde. In the era of commodity production, racialized violence and dispossession, the author defends critical music as a singular index of political possibilities.
Dialectics In The Arts
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Author : Catherine M. Cameron
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Dialectics In The Arts written by Catherine M. Cameron and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Music categories.
Music And Fuzzy Logic
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Author : Hanns-Werner Heister
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Music And Fuzzy Logic written by Hanns-Werner Heister and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
This book unfolds the manifold, complex and intertwined relations between Fuzzy Logic and music in a first comprehensive overview on this topic: systematically as an outline, as completely as possible, in the aspects of Fuzzy Logic in this relation, and especially in music as a process with three main phases, five anthropological layers, and thirteen forms of existence of the art work (Classics, Jazz, Pop, Folklore). Being concerned with the ontological, gnoseological, psychological, and (music-) aesthetical status and the relative importance of different phenomena of relationship between music and Fuzzy Logic, the explication follows the four main principles (with five phenotypes) of Fuzzy Logic with respect to music: similarity, sharpening 1 as filtering, sharpening 2 as crystallization, blurring, and variation. The book reports on years of author's research on topics that have been only little explored so far in the area of Music and Fuzzy Logic. It merges concepts of music analysis with fuzzy logical modes of thinking, in a unique way that is expected to attract both specialists of music and specialists of Fuzzy Logic, and also non-specialists in both fields. The book introduces the concept of dialectic between sharpening and - conscious - "blurring". In turn, some important aspects of this dialectic are discussed, placing them in an historical dimension, and ending in the postulation of a 'musical turn' in the sciences, with some important reflections concerning a "Philosophy of Fuzzy Logic". Moreover, a production-oriented thinking is borrowed from fuzzy logic to musicology in this book, opening new perspectives in music, and possibly also in other artistic fields.
Music Individuals And Contexts Dialectical Interactions
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Author : Nadia Amendola
language : en
Publisher: Società Editrice di Musicologia - UniversItalia
Release Date : 2019-07-12
Music Individuals And Contexts Dialectical Interactions written by Nadia Amendola and has been published by Società Editrice di Musicologia - UniversItalia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Il volume Music, individuals and contexts: dialectical interactionsrappresenta il risultato di un lungo viaggio iniziato con l’organizzazione della 1st Young musicologists and ethnomusicologists international conference, che si è svolta presso l’Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” il 27 e 28 aprile 2017. Due elementi del convegno – e di conseguenza del presente volume – sono stati considerati fondamentali per aumentare l’impatto della condivisione delle conoscenze scientifiche. In primo luogo l'internazionalità delle proposte, che ha mirato ad arricchire la gamma di metodologie, approcci e argomenti con i quali gli studiosi sono venuti in contatto; questo aspetto si manifesta attraverso una selezione di saggi pubblicati in più lingue (inglese, italiano, francese e spagnolo). In secondo luogo la combinazione di differenti prospettive tra musicologi ed etnomusicologi, intesa a fornire la più ampia varietà di punti di vista sullo stesso argomento di ricerca: la musica. * * * The volume Music, individuals and contexts: dialectical interactionsrepresents the final step of a long journey that began with the organization of the 1st Young musicologists and ethnomusicologists international conference, which took place in Rome at the University “Tor Vergata” on 27-28 April 2017. Two features of that conference – and consequently of this volume – were designed to increase the impact of sharing scientific knowledge. First, the internationality of the proposals aimed to enrich the range of methodologies, approaches and topics with which the contributors came in contact; this aspect is expressed here through a multilingual selection of published essays (English, Italian, French and Spanish). Secondly, the combination of perspectives from musicologists and ethnomusicologists was intended to provide the widest variety of points of view on the same research topic: music.
Music And Fuzzy Logic
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Author : Hanns-Werner Heister
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-02-21
Music And Fuzzy Logic written by Hanns-Werner Heister and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-21 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book unfolds the manifold, complex and intertwined relations between Fuzzy Logic and music in a first comprehensive overview on this topic: systematically as an outline, as completely as possible, in the aspects of Fuzzy Logic in this relation, and especially in music as a process with three main phases, five anthropological layers, and thirteen forms of existence of the art work (Classics, Jazz, Pop, Folklore). Being concerned with the ontological, gnoseological, psychological, and (music-) aesthetical status and the relative importance of different phenomena of relationship between music and Fuzzy Logic, the explication follows the four main principles (with five phenotypes) of Fuzzy Logic with respect to music: similarity, sharpening 1 as filtering, sharpening 2 as crystallization, blurring, and variation. The book reports on years of author’s research on topics that have been only little explored so far in the area of Music and Fuzzy Logic. It merges concepts of music analysis with fuzzy logical modes of thinking, in a unique way that is expected to attract both specialists of music and specialists of Fuzzy Logic, and also non-specialists in both fields. The book introduces the concept of dialectic between sharpening and – conscious – “blurring”. In turn, some important aspects of this dialectic are discussed, placing them in an historical dimension, and ending in the postulation of a 'musical turn' in the sciences, with some important reflections concerning a “Philosophy of Fuzzy Logic”. Moreover, a production-oriented thinking is borrowed from fuzzy logic to musicology in this book, opening new perspectives in music, and possibly also in other artistic fields.
Dialectic Of Pop
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Author : Agnes Gayraud
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2020-01-28
Dialectic Of Pop written by Agnes Gayraud and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-28 with Philosophy categories.
A philosophical exploration of pop music that reveals a rich, self-reflexive art form with unsuspected depths. In the first major philosophical treatise on the subject, Agnès Gayraud explores all the paradoxes of pop—its inauthentic authenticity, its mass production of emotion and personal resonance, its repetitive novelty, its precision engineering of seduction—and calls for pop (in its broadest sense, encompassing all genres of popular recorded music) to be recognized as a modern, technologically mediated art form to rank alongside cinema and photography. In a thoroughgoing engagement with Adorno's fierce critique of "standardized light popular music," Dialectic of Pop tracks the transformations of the pop form and its audience over the course of the twentieth century, from Hillbilly to Beyoncé, from Lead Belly to Drake. Inseparable from the materiality of its technical media, indifferent and intractable to the perspectives of high culture, pop subverts notions of authenticity and inauthenticity, original and copy, aura and commodity, medium and message. Gayraud demonstrates that, far from being the artless and trivial mass-produced pabulum denigrated by Adorno, pop is a rich, self-reflexive artform that recognises its own contradictions, incorporates its own productive negativity, and often flourishes by thinking "against itself." Dialectic of Pop sings the praises of pop as a constitutively impure form resulting from the encounter between industrial production and the human predilection for song, and diagnoses the prospects for twenty-first century pop as it continues to adapt to ever-changing technological mediations.
Dialectical Opposition In Fin De Si Cle Music
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Author : Benjamin K. Wadsworth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Dialectical Opposition In Fin De Si Cle Music written by Benjamin K. Wadsworth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Atonality categories.
[Author abstract] The so-called "transitional" works of the Second Viennese School from around 1908 are problematic with respect to unity, as they combine tonal, interval-cyclic, and atonal set structures in a fluid and ambiguous manner. In general, these works have been viewed within an organicist perspective as tonal or atonal, an approach yielding fragmentary results as it depicts points of closure but not large-scale continuity. For instance, Berg's Op. 1 Piano Sonata (1908) may be analyzed as primarily tonal due to its high-level arrivals in b minor, but its foreground contains many phrases structured instead by a system of cycles (whole-tone harmonies connected by semitonal voice leading), and other phrases that mix tonal and cyclic structures to varying extents. Instead of viewing these transitional works as tonal or atonal, their harmonic ambiguity suggests an autonomous structural principle. Accordingly, this dissertation proposes dialectical processes wherein tonal and atonal structures serve as polar opposites at the endpoints of a continuum, and cyclic structures mediate between the endpoints. Dialectical processes are advantageous with respect to unity as they assert continuity between tonal and atonal structures. Previous attempts at dialectical models of structure, however, have proven unsatisfactory since they do not define opposition at a high structural level, they employ tacit organicist assumptions (as in Bailey 1985), or they do not predict directed motion towards various goal-states (as in Boss 2000/ 2001). To characterize the large-scale continuity and closure of transitional works, the dialectical method in this dissertation defines such states via Schoenberg's model of balance/ imbalance, and relates those states to a master process that is inspired by the work of the German nineteenth-century philosopher Hegel, in particular his three-stage progression of a concept, its refutation, and their higher-level reconciliation (Hegel [1807] 1977). This dissertation contends that, to compensate for the harmonic ambiguity in transitional works, melodic surface motives (rhythm/ contour patterns) assume a more structural role. Thus, I trace dialectical opposition in both harmonic and motivic structures, defining the latter in terms of formal designs created by motivic similarity and contrast. Accordingly, chapters 2 and 3 establish models of balance/ imbalance in harmonic and motivic structures, wherein the global structure of the principal theme is considered referential for a given work, and opposite structures are considered imbalanced (e.g., given a tonal principal theme, "atonality" is imbalanced). There are three principal advantages to this approach: first, one can describe ambiguities in harmony and form as hybrid states of balance and imbalance; second, one can assert a structural context for the development of both sets and contour/ rhythm motives; and third, one can compare the degree of closure in both harmonic and motivic structures using criteria of balance and imbalance. Chapter 4 specifies two types of the dialectical formal plans (called Dialectical Plots or DP's): the first unfolds within harmonic structure whereas the second traces the interaction of harmonic and motivic structure. These DP's explain the large-scale directed motion of a transitional work in terms of a narrative structure that embodies a final state of balance and a concurrent assimilation of imbalanced motives. They also describe the precise degree of unity and disunity in a transitional work as continuity (the gradual intensification of balance and imbalance), closure (the return of balance after imbalance), and their opposites. Chapter 5 provides a full-length analysis of Berg's Op. 1 Piano Sonata that demonstrates the analytical method and advances the understanding of unity and disunity in the work. This analysis first examines Op. 1 from a Schenkerian perspective coordinated with an analysis of form, so as to describe high-level tonal events in b minor, their tonal expectations on lower levels, and analogous thematic events in the sonata form. Second, the analysis applies the two DP's to describe surface fluctuations between tonal and cyclic harmonic structures, and between contour/ rhythm motives from the principal theme and contrasting themes. The interpretive result of the DP's is the depiction of closure, wherein high-level motives from the principal and subordinate themes are reconciled at the end of the work, and continuity, in which states of balance and imbalance increase throughout the work so as to foreshadow and require the final state of balance. Whereas previous analyses of Berg's Op. 1 (Schmalfeldt 1991, Headlam 1996) emphasize either tonal or atonal structure, this analysis demonstrates how the work constitutes one continuous motion towards a final state of balance in the harmonic and motivic structures. The analysis is also beneficial to the study of dialectical thought and its interaction with music: as the work unfolds in time, it is shown to shift focus from surface to subsurface motivic associations, a process comparable to Hegel's progression from the concrete (individual consciousness) to the abstract (knowledge of the Absolute). The dissertation concludes by interpreting transitional works as instances of either "positive" or "negative" dialectics. Works such as Berg's Op. 1 are instances of "positive" dialectics, as they ultimately resolve imbalance to balance, whereas works such as Schoenberg's Op. 11, no. 1 exemplify a turn to "negative" dialectics, as they resolve imbalance to balance but end on a state of imbalance.
Essays On Music
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Author : Theodor Adorno
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2002-08-08
Essays On Music written by Theodor Adorno and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-08 with Literary Collections categories.
"A book of landmark importance. It is unprecedented in its design: a brilliantly selected group of essays on music coupled with lucid, deeply incisive, and in every way masterly analysis of Adorno's thinking about music. No one who studies Adorno and music will be able to dispense with it; and if they can afford only one book on Adorno and music, this will be the one. For in miniature, it contains everything one needs: a collection of exceptionally important writings on all the principal aspects of music and musical life with which Adorno dealt; totally reliable scholarship; and powerfully illuminating commentary that will help readers at all levels read and re-read the essays in question."—Rose Rosengard Subotnik, author of Deconstructive Variations: Music and Reason in Western Society "An invaluable contribution to Adorno scholarship, with well chosen essays on composers, works, the culture industry, popular music, kitsch, and technology. Leppert's introduction and commentaries are consistently useful; his attention to secondary literature remarkable; his interpretation responsible. The new translations by Susan Gillespie (and others) are outstanding not only for their care and readability, but also for their sensitivity to Adorno's forms and styles."—Lydia Goehr, author of The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics and the Limits of Philosophy "With its careful, full edition of Adorno's important musical texts and its exhaustive yet eminently readable commentaries, Richard Leppert's magisterial book represents a brilliant solution to the age-old dilemma of bringing together primary text and interpretation in one volume."—James Deaville, Director, School of the Arts, McMaster University "The developing variations of Adorno's life-long involvement with musical themes are fully audible in this remarkable collection. What might be called his 'literature on notes' brilliantly complements the 'notes to literature' he devoted to the written word. Richard Leppert's superb commentaries constitute a book-length contribution in their own right, which will enlighten and challenge even the most learned of Adorno scholars."—Martin Jay, author of The Dialectical Imagination: A History of The Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research "There is afoot in Anglo-American musicology today the first wholesale reconsideration of Adorno's thought since the pioneering work of Rose Rosengard Subotnik around 1980. Essays on Music will play a central role in this effort. It will do so because Richard Leppert has culled Adorno's writings so as to make clear to musicologists the place of music in the broad critique of modernity that was Adorno's overarching project; and it will do so because Leppert has explained these writings, in commentaries that amount to a book-length study, so as to reveal to non-musicologists the essentially musical foundation of this project. No one interested in Adorno from any perspective—or, for that matter, in modernity and music all told—can afford to ignore Essays on Music."—Gary Tomlinson, author of Metaphysical Song: An Essay on Opera "This book is both a major achievement by its author-editor and a remarkable act of scholarly generosity for the rest of us. Until now, English translations of Adorno's major essays on music have been scattered and often unreliable. Until now, there has been no comprehensive scholarly treatment of Adorno's musical thinking. This volume remedies both problems at a single stroke. It will be read equally—and eagerly—for Adorno's texts and for Richard Leppert's commentary on them, both of which will continue to be essential resources as musical scholarship seeks increasingly to come to grips with the social contexts and effects of music. No one knows Adorno better than Leppert, and no one is better equipped to clarify the complex interweaving of sociology, philosophy, and musical aesthetics that is central to Adorno's work. From now on, everyone who reads Adorno on music, whether a beginner or an expert, is in Richard Leppert's debt for devoting his exceptional gifts of learning and lucidity to this project."—Lawrence Kramer, author of Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History
Philosophy Of New Music
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Author : Theodor W. Adorno
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2020-06-02
Philosophy Of New Music written by Theodor W. Adorno and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-02 with Philosophy categories.
An indispensable key to Adorno’s influential oeuvre—now in paperback In 1949, Theodor W. Adorno’s Philosophy of New Music was published, coinciding with the prominent philosopher’s return to a devastated Europe after his exile in the United States. Intensely polemical from its first publication, every aspect of this work was met with extreme reactions, from stark dismissal to outrage. Even Arnold Schoenberg reviled it. Despite the controversy, Philosophy of New Music became highly regarded and widely read among musicians, scholars, and social philosophers. Marking a major turning point in his musicological philosophy, Adorno located a critique of musical reproduction as internal to composition, rather than a matter of musical performance. Consisting of two distinct essays, “Schoenberg and Progress” and “Stravinsky and Reaction,” Philosophy of New Music poses the musical extremes in which Adorno perceived the struggle for the cultural future of Europe: between human emancipation and barbarism, between the compositional techniques and achievements of Schoenberg and Stravinsky. In this translation, which is accompanied by an extensive introduction by distinguished translator Robert Hullot-Kentor, Philosophy of New Music emerges as an essential guide to the whole of Adorno's oeuvre.
Sound Figures
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Author : Theodor W. Adorno
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1999
Sound Figures written by Theodor W. Adorno and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Music categories.
Theodor Adorno is one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics and music. This volume of essays contains Adorno's thoughts on music and its wider social implications.