Critical Musicology and the Responsibility of Response

Selected Essays

Lawrence Kramer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-37843-8 (ISBN)

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Why does music move us? Lawrence Kramer suggests we should ask this old question in a different way: what is responsible for our response to music, and to what is our response responsible? The essays in this outstanding collection explore this question amongst many others, and by finding cultural meaning in music they exemplify the critical turn in musicology. Sixteen essays have been selected, most of them previously published, from the late 1980s to the present day. These are prefaced by an excellent introduction which traces the intellectual development of critical musicology and discusses the part these essays have had to play in that movement.

Lawrence Kramer is Professor of English and Music at Fordham University, New York, USA, and is an active composer.

Contents: Introduction; Selected bibliography; Tropes and windows: an outline of musical hermaneutics (1990); Decadence and desire: the 'Wilhelm Meister' songs of Wolf and Schubert; Dangerous Liaisons: the literary text in musical criticism; Music criticism and the postmodern turn: in contrary motion with Gary Tomlinson; Charging the Canons; The strange case of Beethoven's 'Coriolan' : romantic aesthetics, modern subjectivity, and the cult of Shakespeare; The harem threshold: Turkish music and Greek love in Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy'; Primitive encounters: Beethoven's 'Tempest' sonata, musical meaning, and enlightenment anthropology; Tolstoy's Beethoven, Beethoven's Tolstoy: the Kreutzer sonata; Like falling leaves: the erotics of mourning in four drum taps settings; Chopin at the funeral: episodes in the history of modern death; Recognizing Schubert: musical subjectivity, cultural change and Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady; Haydn's chaos, Schenker's order; or, musical meaning and musical analysis: can they mix? ; ); Speaking melody, melodic speech; 'Longindying Call': of music, modernity, and the Sirens 'Au-delÃ d'une musique informelle': nostalgia, obsolescence, and the avant-garde; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.03.2020
Reihe/Serie	Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	644 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10	1-138-37843-7 / 1138378437
ISBN-13	978-1-138-37843-8 / 9781138378438
Zustand	Neuware