Sounds as They Are

The unwritten music in classical recordings

Richard Beaudoin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-765928-1 (ISBN)

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In a recording, what sounds count as music? Sounds made by a musician's body--including inhales, finger taps, and grunts--have for decades been dismissed as extraneous noises. In Sounds as They Are: The unwritten music in classical recordings, author Richard Beaudoin pioneers a field of inquiry into non-notated sounds in recordings of classical music, recognizing often-overlooked sounds made by the bodies of performers and their recording equipment as music.

Beaudoin classifies such sounds via inclusive track analysis (ITA), a bold new theory based on a comprehensive census of audible events on a given recording, and then codifies their musical function. He builds a typology across four large categories: sounds of breath (inhaling and exhaling), sounds of touch (guitar squeaks, piano pedals), sounds of effort (grunting and moaning), and surface noise (on early recording formats). Breaths are shown to be as complex and diverse as chords. Touch sounds create empathy with listeners. Effortful vocalizations reveal connections between music-making and sex. The measurement of surface noise reveals moments of synchronization with the meter of the recorded piece. He draws analogies between unwritten music and painting, photography, poetry, psychology, and government. The book's methodology is intertwined with the aesthetics and ethics of non-notated sounds: who is allowed to make them, and how they are received by listeners, critics, and scholars. Beaudoin uncovers insidious inequalities across music studies and the recording industry, including the silencing of body and breath sounds along lines of gender and race.

Sounds as They Are demonstrates the expressive, interpretive, and embodied possibilities that emerge when all sounds are valued coequally and asks music theory to face a simple truth: that all sounds deserve recognition.

Richard Beaudoin analyses audio recordings and uses his research to create scholarship and compose new music. He has held posts as Preceptor in Music at Harvard University, The Joseph E. and Grace W. Valentine Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Amherst College, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music at Dartmouth College.

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION
Four octaves and one breath
Defining unwritten music
Why classical recordings?
Categorizing unwritten music
Five notes

CHAPTER 1. The Aesthetics and Ethics of Unwritten Music
Sound recordings as documents
Questioning "intelligent suppression"
Everything that sounds simultaneously
An unwritten note
A series of enigmatic clicks
A decisive inhale
Five analogies
The reception of unwritten music
The empathetic dimension

CHAPTER 2. Sounds of Breath
Breath sounds as music
Breath as rhetoric
Breath as anacrusis
Breath as expectation
Breath within motive
Breath as climax
Breath as phrase marker
Breath as narration

CHAPTER 3. Sounds of Touch
Touch sounds as music
Fingernails and motive
Foreshadowing fingertips
Dancing fingerfalls
Squeaking shifts
Percussive valve clacks
Chair creaks
Podium stamps
Timbral damper pedals

CHAPTER 4. Sounds of Effort
Sounded effort as music
Sound, sex, and somaesthetics
Climactic exertions 1: The exultant holler
Climactic exertions 2: The tense moan
Climactic exertions 3: Grunt lead
Intimate exertions 1: Subtle vocalizing
Intimate exertions 2: Emphatic panting
Intimate exertions 3: Stifled grunting
A thoroughgoing growl
Moans as indicators of phrase
Grunts unheard

CHAPTER 5. Surface Noise
Surface noise as music
Listening with
Recordings as carta
Six modes of interaction
Performance-centricity
Narrative asynchrony
Ekphrastic (non)coincidence
Expressive synchronicity
Metaphoric development
Surface noise-centricity

CHAPTER 6. Inclusive Track Analysis
Attentional flexibility
Reading what was never written
Inclusive track analysis: A pragmatic framework
Beyond classical tracks
Les sons tels qu'ils sont

Discography
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Studies in Music Theory
Zusatzinfo	55 musical examples, 8 b/w figures
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 226 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-19-765928-4 / 0197659284
ISBN-13	978-0-19-765928-1 / 9780197659281
Zustand	Neuware