Sensorial aesthetics in music practices / edited by Kathleen Coessens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coessens, Kathleen.

Contributor:

Coessens, Kathleen, editor.

Series:

Orpheus Institute series.

Orpheus Institute series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Leuven University Press, [2019]

Summary:

The Western history of aesthetics is characterised by tension between theory and practice. Musicians listen, play, and then listen more profoundly in order to play differently, adapt the body, and sense the environment. They become deeply involved in the sensorial qualities of music practice. Artistic practice refers to the original meaning of aesthetics - the senses. Whereas Baumgarten and Goethe explored the relationship between sensibility and reason, sensation and thinking, later philosophers of aesthetics deemed the sensorial to be confused and unreliable and instead prioritised a cognitive or objective approach. Written by authors from the fields of philosophy, composition, performance, and artistic practice, 'Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices' repositions aesthetics as a domain of the sensible and explores the interaction between artists, life, and environment. Aesthetics becomes a field of sensorial and embodied experience involving temporal and spatial influences, implicit knowledge, and human characteristics.

Contents:

Sound and sense in musical phrases : from the art of the keyboard to the question of phrase and melody / Michael Levinas

On the sensorial of aesthetics / Kathleen Coessens

Noise, sound, silence / Tim Ingold

On the sensorial of music and breathing / Kathleen Coessens

Sense versus sensitivity in composition : a phoney debate? / Fabien Lévy

On the sensorial of human beings / Kathleen Coessens

Extreme interpretation? : some observations on Rachmaninoff's version of Chopin's Third ballade in A-flat major, op. 47 / Lasse Thoresen

On the sensorial of the human body in performance / Kathleen Coessens

Reflections on the politics of sentiment score for performing the criticality of a sonic sensibility / Salomé Voegelin

On the sensorial of imagination / Kathleen Coessens and Vanessa Tomlinson.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

94-6166-291-2