Music and Imagination
Title | Music and Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron Copland (American composer, writer on music, pianist, conductor and teacher) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1953 |
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Music, Imagination, and Culture
Title | Music, Imagination, and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Cook |
Publisher | Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780198163039 |
Musicians imagine music by means of functional models which determine certain aspects of the music while leaving others open. This gap between image and the experience it models offers a source of compositional creativity; different musical cultures embody different ways of imagining sound as music. Drawing on psychological and philosophical materials as well as the analysis of specific musical examples, Cook here defines the difference between music theory and aesthetic criticism, and affirms the importance of the "ordinary listener" in musical culture.
Imagination, Music, and the Emotions
Title | Imagination, Music, and the Emotions PDF eBook |
Author | Saam Trivedi |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2017-08-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438467176 |
Articulates an imaginationist solution to the question of how purely instrumental music can be perceived by a listener as having emotional content. Both musicians and laypersons can perceive purely instrumental music without words or an associated story or program as expressing emotions such as happiness and sadness. But how? In this book, Saam Trivedi discusses and critiques the leading philosophical approaches to this question, including formalism, metaphorism, expression theories, arousalism, resemblance theories, and persona theories. Finding these to be inadequate, he advocates an “imaginationist” solution, by which absolute music is not really or literally sad but is only imagined to be so in a variety of ways. In particular, he argues that we as listeners animate the music ourselves, imaginatively projecting life and mental states onto it. Bolstering his argument with empirical data from studies in neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science, Trivedi also addresses and explores larger philosophical questions such as the nature of emotions, metaphors, and imagination.
Music and Imagination
Title | Music and Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron Copland |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 140 |
Release | 1952 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780674589155 |
Describes the all important role of the imagination in the composition, performance, appreciation and intelligent comprehension of music and surveys its influence on contemporary music.
Music and the Racial Imagination
Title | Music and the Racial Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald M. Radano |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 728 |
Release | 2000-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780226701998 |
"A specter lurks in the house of music, and it goes by the name of race," write Ronald Radano and Philip Bohlman in their introduction. Yet the intimate relationship between race and music has rarely been examined by contemporary scholars, most of whom have abandoned it for the more enlightened notions of ethnicity and culture. Here, a distinguished group of contributors confront the issue head on. Representing an unusually broad range of academic disciplines and geographic regions, they critically examine how the imagination of race has influenced musical production, reception, and scholarly analysis, even as they reject the objectivity of the concept itself. Each essay follows the lead of the substantial introduction, which reviews the history of race in European and American, non-Western and global musics, placing it within the contexts of the colonial experience and the more recent formation of "world music." Offering a bold, new revisionist agenda for musicology in a postmodern, postcolonial world, this book will appeal to students of culture and race across the humanities and social sciences.
Music and the Historical Imagination
Title | Music and the Historical Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Leo Treitler |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674591295 |
Leo Treitler is a central figure in American musicology, both for his writings on medieval and Renaissance music and for his influential work on historical analysis. In this elegant book he develops a powerful statement of what music analysis and criticism in relation to historical understanding can be. His aim is an understanding of the music of the past not only in its own historical context but also as we apprehend it now, and as we assimilate it to our current interests and concerns. He elucidates his views through unique new interpretations of major works from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.
Musical ImagiNation
Title | Musical ImagiNation PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Elena Cepeda |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 081471692X |
Long associated with the pejorative cliches of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. This study of the Miami music industry and Miami's growing Colombian community asserts that popular music provides an alternative common space for imagining and enacting Colombian identity.