Antithetical Arts
On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music
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2009
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-956280-0 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-956280-0 (ISBN)
Peter Kivy presents a fascinating critical examination of the two rival ways of understanding instrumental music. He argues against 'literary' interpretation in terms of representational or narrative content, and defends musical formalism. Along the way he discusses interpretations of a range of works in the canon of absolute music.
Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of both the literary interpretation of absolute music and musical formalism are laid out. In Part II, specific attempts to put literary interpretations on various works of the absolute music canon are examined and criticized. Finally, in Part III, the question is raised as to what the human significance of absolute music is, if it does not lie in its representational or narrative content. The answer is that, as yet, philosophy has no answer, and that the question should be considered an important one for philosophers of art to consider, and to try to answer without appeal to representational or narrative content.
Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of both the literary interpretation of absolute music and musical formalism are laid out. In Part II, specific attempts to put literary interpretations on various works of the absolute music canon are examined and criticized. Finally, in Part III, the question is raised as to what the human significance of absolute music is, if it does not lie in its representational or narrative content. The answer is that, as yet, philosophy has no answer, and that the question should be considered an important one for philosophers of art to consider, and to try to answer without appeal to representational or narrative content.
Peter Kivy is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Jersey. His field of specialization is aesthetics and the philosophy of art.
Preface ; PART I: THE FOUNDING OF FORMALISM ; 1. First the Music, and then the Words ; 2. Designs a la Grecque ; 3. Body and Soul ; PART II: THE FORTUNES OF FORMALISM ; 4. Mood and Music ; 5. Persona Non Grata ; 6. Action and Agency ; 7. Shostakovich's Secret? ; PART III: THE FATE OF FORMALISM ; 8. The Failure of Formalism and the Failure of its Foes ; 9. Attention, Ritual, and the Additive Strategy ; 10. Musical Morality ; 11. Empty Pleasure to the Ear ; BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.3.2009 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | frontispiece |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 144 x 223 mm |
| Gewicht | 481 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-956280-6 / 0199562806 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-956280-0 / 9780199562800 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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