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Absolute music and the construction of meaning
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ISBN: 0521631815 0521027519 0511089015 1107115698 0511019181 0511175752 0511156340 0511325401 0511481691 1280420294 0511051069 9780511481697 9780511019180 0511035829 9780511035821 9780511051067 9780511156342 9786610420292 6610420297 9780521631815 Year: 1999 Volume: *1 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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'.

Narratology beyond literary criticism : mediality, disciplinarity
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ISBN: 3110183528 9786612195556 1282195557 3110201844 9783110201840 9783110183528 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter,

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This anthology presents the results of the Second International Colloquium of the Narratology Research Group (Hamburg University). It engages in the exploration of approaches that broaden Narratology's realm. The contributions illustrate the transcendence of traditional models common to Narratology. They also reflect on the relevance of such a 'going beyond' as seen in more general terms: What interrelation can be observed between re-definition of object domain and re-definition of method? What potential interfaces with other methods and disciplines does the proposed innovation offer? Finally,

The improvisation of musical dialogue : a phenomenology of music
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ISBN: 0521810930 0521009324 1107132487 051116999X 0511064349 0511058012 0511297114 0511615922 1280418486 1139147765 0511072805 9780511064340 9780511615924 9780521810937 9780521009324 9780511072802 9781107132481 9781280418488 9781139147767 9780511058011 9780511297113 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book is an important contribution to the philosophy of music. Whereas most books in this field focus on the creation and reproduction of music, Bruce Benson's concern is the phenomenology of music making as an activity. He offers the radical thesis that it is improvisation that is primary in the moment of music making. Succinct and lucid, the book brings together a wide range of musical examples from classical music, jazz, early music and other genres. It offers a rich tapestry incorporating both analytic and continental philosophy, musicology and performance-practice issues. It will be a provocative read for philosophers of art and musicologists and, because it eschews technicality, should appeal to general readers, especially those who perform.


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The tone of our times : sound, sense, economy, and ecology
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ISBN: 0262320584 9780262320580 9780262028080 0262028085 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press,

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Sound, tone, music, voice, and noise as forms of sonority through which our current economic and ecological crises can be understood.


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Music as Cultural Heritage and Novelty
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ISBN: 9783031111464 9783031111457 9783031111471 9783031111488 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book provides a multifaceted view on the relation between the old and the new in music, between tradition and innovation. This is a much-debated issue, generating various ideas and theories, which rarely come to unanimous conclusions. Therefore, the book offers diverse perspectives on topics such as national identities, narrative strategies, the question of musical performance and musical meaning. Alongside themes of general interest, such as classical repertoire, the music of well-established composers and musical topics, the chapters of the book also touch on specific, but equally interesting subjects, like Brazilian traditions, Serbian and Romanian composers and the lullaby. While the book is mostly addressed to researchers, it can also be recommended to students in musicology, ethnomusicology, musical performance, and musical semiotics.


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From Stage to Screen : The Legacy of Traditional Chinese Theatre in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema Soundtracks
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ISBN: 9789811970375 9789811970368 9789811970382 9789811970399 Year: 2023 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer,

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Chinese martial arts cinema is held to be a synthesis drawing on artistic conventions of traditional Chinese theatre. Film sound and music perform as the legitimate heirs of some of the aesthetic ideas and norms of traditional Chinese theatre. This book critically examines the history of this under-explored field of inquiry from a theoretically comparative perspective, demonstrating that the musical codes drawn from traditional theatre are a constantly changing component integral to Chinese martial arts cinema. It explores the interaction between traditional Chinese theatre and Chinese martial arts cinema in how the musical codes of the former have shaped the aesthetics of the latter uniquely. This departs from conventional existing studies that focus on “adaptation.” The book’s historical and theoretical approach connects film, theatre and music, and re-defines the status of distinctive domains of filmic expression, grounding theatre as the pivot – or “hinge” – of film aesthetics. The book proffers this unique angle of research to rethink and re-imagine film sound and audiovisual synchronisation. Primarily intended for scholars in Chinese cinema, film music, Chinese theatre and visual culture, this monograph also presents introductory and comprehensive material for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in film and media studies, film music, Chinese cinema, and Chinese theatre.


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We piano teachers and our demons : socio-psychological obstacles on the road to inspired and secure performance
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ISBN: 9789811921414 9789811921407 9789811921421 9789811921438 Year: 2022 Publisher: Gateway East, Singapore : Springer,

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This book focuses on piano teachers and the many pains they encounter in their careers. These pains play an essential role in blocking the musical inspiration of their students. The author identifies with the sensitivities of the teachers, aiming at the inspiration permeated and safer playing of their students. The book penetrates the protective mechanisms of the teachers that, on the one hand, maintain their professional functioning, while on the other hand, block refreshing ideas. It combines exploration of secure and culturally informed inspired playing, coping with exaggerated anxiety and understanding the interaction of piano actions with pianist's physiology. This book helps to open teachers' perceptions of the ways to enable more secure and more inspired performances while remembering the inner feelings of the piano teachers.

Theory into practice : Composition, Performance and the Listening Experience
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ISBN: 9061869943 946166432X Year: 2021 Volume: 2 Publisher: Leuven Leuven University Press

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"Theory into Practice. Composition, Performance and the Listening Experience' is the second publication in the series 'Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute'. The series comprises articles concerning the activities of the Orpheus Institute.The centrale theme of this book is the relationship between the reflections about and the relization of a musical composition. In his paper Words about Music, or Analysis versus Performance, Nicholas Cook states that words and music can never be aligned exactly with one another. He embarks on a quest for models of the relationship between analytical conception and performance that are more challenging than those in general currency.Peter Johnson's article Performance and the Listening Experience: Bach's 'Erbarme dich' shows that a performance is an element within the intentionality of the work itself. He looks for scientific methods capable of proving the artisticity of a performance.The composer Hans Zender, in his A Road Map for Orpheus?, states that a composer must be capable of questioning obvious basic principles (such as equal temperament) and finding creative solutions."


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Sonic agency : sound and emergent forms of resistance
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ISBN: 1906897514 9781906897512 9781906897536 1906897522 1906897549 Year: 2018 Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

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"The book proposes a multi-dimensional understanding on sound and listening as capacities for challenging social and political structures of inequality and domination, supporting interpersonal exchange and modes of community-building based on empathy, care and compassion"--

Musical knowledge
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ISBN: 1134854889 1280182075 0203424573 0203301323 9780203301326 9780203424575 9780415100960 0415100968 9780415100977 0415100976 9786610182077 6610182078 9781134854882 9781134854837 1134854838 9781134854875 1134854870 9781138149717 1138149713 0415100976 0415100968 Year: 1994 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Examines the tension between intuitive and analytical ways of making sense of the world by exploring musical knowledge and experience.

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