Death and (re) birth of J. S. Bach : reconsidering musical authorship and the work-concept / Roberto Alonso Trillo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trillo, Roberto Alonso, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750--Criticism and interpretation.

Bach, Johann Sebastian.

Authorship--Philosophy.

Authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

While the study and redefinition of the notion of authorship and its relationship to the idea of the literary work have played a central role in recent research on literature, semiotics, and related disciplines, its impact on contemporary musicology is still limited. Why? What implications would a reconsideration of the author- and work-concepts have on our understanding of the creative musical processes? Why would such a re-examination of these regulative concepts be necessary? Could it emerge from a post-structuralist revision of the notion of musical textuality? In this book, Trillo takes the Bach project, a collection of new music based on Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita No.1 for solo violin, BWV 1002, as a point of departure to sketch some critical answers to these fundamental questions, raise new ones, and explore their musicological implications.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of illustrations and audiovisual material

Pre-text

Introduction

1 Poiesis

Overture

Filmic correspondences as impetus: questioning authorship

The . . . Bach . . . project: questioning authorship?

The baroque suite and Bach's BWV 1002

Commissioning the . . . Bach . . . project

Ritornello I

2 Authorship and workhood: intellectual framework

Transition

Authorship and literary authorship theories in the late twentieth century

Phase 1: phenomenology, formalism, and New Criticism

Phase 2: from the death of the author to the reemergence of intentionality

Phase 3: public intentionality, the text as interpretation, and New Historicism

On music and authorship

The work-concept and Goehr's conceptual imperialism

Critiques of Goehr's approach

Bach as an author

The work- and author-concepts revisited

Orthodox realists

Unorthodox realists

The ontological turn

Antirealists

Alternative approaches

Medial caesura

3 Barthes and Derrida: terminology and methodology

Barthes and the "Death of the Author"

Derridean terminology

Dissémination

Signature and iterability

Archi-écriture

Différance

Trace

Coda

Ritornello II

Cadential prolongation

4 Death and (re)birth of J. S. Bach: case studies

Methodological considerations: authorship markers

Bach/Buide: new dice, an old game

Bach/Matamoro: Bach as movement/Bach as gesture

Bach/Marco: Bach's signature

Bach/Järnegard: Bach as space/Bach as sound

Conclusion

Self-reflection

Ritornello III

Should we consider the . . . Bach . . . project as a single work?

Who would the author of the . . . Bach . . . project be? Is there one? Is there any?.

How can these questions help us contest the dominant notion of musical authorship?

Coda - (performing) the . . . Bach . . . project (as performance)

Postscript

Annex

Figure 2.1

Figure 2.2

Table 2.1

Table 2.2

Index.

Notes:

"Routledge focus".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-99772-8

0-429-50471-3

0-429-99773-6

9780429504716

OCLC:

1076271023