Philosophy and the Analysis of Music

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Philosophy and the Analysis of Music Bridges to Musical Sound, Form, and Reference

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Lawrence Ferrara

Book Code: FLZ/

ISBN: 0-313-28345-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28345-1

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392 pages, figures

Greenwood Press

Publication: 11/30/1991

List Price: $101.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Subjects:

The Arts » Dance

Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance

Series Number: 24

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Ferrara is engaging when he is summarizing and commenting on the works of Meyer, Clifton, Heidegger, and others.
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Description: A musical experience is marked by the synthesis of passion and rationality, emotion and understanding, and body and mind. Ferrara demonstrates that each method of musical analysis confines musical significance to a single level: formal methods explain musical syntax; phenemonological methods describe the sound-in-time; and hermeneutic approaches interpret referential meanings. Ferrara devises an "eclectic method" that provides bridges for musical sound, form, and reference. In response to the multiplicity of levels of musical significance, Ferrara's eclectic method draws upon a wide-ranging number of conventional and non-conventional approaches to musical analysis which results in a dialectic of methods. Referential meanings are concretized, clarified, and delimited by the degree to which they can be grounded in the sound-in-time and formal elements; the latter are reexamined, expanded, and enriched by referential insights. In the last two chapters, the eclectic method is tested through analyses of works by Bela Bartok and David Zinn. This book is intended for trained music listeners and performers, music analysts, musicologists, and those interested in aesthetics and the development of music and music education.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Musical Significance and Method
Referential Meaning In Music
Should The Method Define The Tasks? (A Theoretical Framework for Sound, Form, and Reference)
A Philosophical Ground
Husserl's Phenomenology
Heidegger's Hermeneutic Phenomenology
Heidegger's Philosophy of Art
Phenomenology and Music
An Eclectic Method for Musical Analysis
An Eclectic Method for Sound, Form, and Reference
Bela Bartok's Improvisation #3, Opus 20: An Eclectic Analysis
David Zinn's "Spanish Sojourn", 3rd. Mov't.: An Eclectic Analysis
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 91-26022

LCC Class: ML3845

Dewey Class: 780


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