Musical Performance : A Philosophical Study

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Godlovitch, Stan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music.

Performance.

Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music--Performance.

Local Subjects:

Music.

Performance.

Philosophy and aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Most music we hear comes to us via a recording medium on which sound has been stored. Such remoteness of music heard from music made has become so commonplace it is rarely considered. Musical Performance: A Philosophical Study considers the implications of this separation for live musical performance and music-making. Rather than examining the composition or perception of music as most philosophical accounts of music do, Stan Godlovitch takes up the problem of how the tradition of active music playing and performing has been challenged by technology and what problems this poses

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Central aspects of performance; A model of musical performance; Skills and Guilds; Challenges to the model; Performances and musical works; Computers, readymades, and artistic agency; Experiments with musical agency; Artists, programs, and performance; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780203263170

1-280-33209-3

1-134-65440-5

0-203-26317-0

0-87563-415-X

0-203-02562-8

1-134-65439-1

9780203025628

OCLC:

70729277