Virtual works – actual things : essays in music ontology / edited by Paulo de Assis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Assis, Paulo de, editor.

Series:

Orpheus Institute series.

Orpheus Institute series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 pages) : PDF, digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2018].

System Details:

text file

Summary:

What are musical works? How are they constructed in our minds? Which material things allow us to speak about them in the first place? Does a specific way of conceiving musical works limit their performative potentials? Which alternative, more productive images of musical work can be devised? 'Virtual Works -- Actual Things' addresses contemporary music ontological discourses, challenging dominant musicological accounts, questioning their authoritative foundation and moving towards dynamic perspectives devised by music practitioners and artist researchers. Specific attention is given to the relationship between the virtual multiplicities that enable the construction of an image of a musical work and the actual, concrete materials that make such a construction possible. With contributions by prominent scholars, this book is a wide-ranging and fascinating collection of essays, which will be of great interest for artistic research, contemporary musicology, music philosophy, performance studies and music pedagogy alike.

Contents:

Introduction Paulo de Assis

Virtual works

actual things Paulo de Assis

Locating the performable musical work in practice: a non-platonist interpretation of the "classical paradigm" / David Davies

Towards a general theory of musical works and musical listening / Gunnar Hindrichs

The work of the performer / John Rink

Music as play: a dialogue / Andreas Dorschel

What anyway is a "music discomposed"? reading Cavell through the dark glasses of Adorno / Lydia Goehr

Response 1, What Is a music dis-discomposed? / Kathy Kiloh

Response 2, Krenek, Cage, and Stockhausen in Cavell's "Music discomposed" / Jake McNulty

Response 3, Stanley Cavell's "Music discomposed" at 52 / Paulo de Assis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789462701403

9462701407

OCLC:

1253407625