Musical beauty : negotiating the boundary between subject and object / Férdia J. Stone-Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone-Davis, Férdia J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boethius, -524.

Boethius.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 210 pages)

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers an important new perspective on the Western tradition of musical aesthetics through an examination of Anicius Boethius and Immanuel Kant. Within the trajectory illuminated by these two thinkers, musical meaning is framed by and formed through the concept of beauty--a concept which is shaped by prior understandings about notions of the self and the world. Beauty opens up a space within which the boundary between the self and the world, subject and object, is negotiated and configured. In doing so, either the subject or the object is asserted to the detriment of the other, and to the physicality of music. This book asserts that the uniqueness of music's ontology emerges from its basis in sound and embodied practice. It suggests that musical beauty is generated by the mutuality of subject and object arising within the participation that music encourages, one which involves an ekstatic mode of attention on the part of the subject.

Contents:

The Boethian understanding of the world, the role of beauty, and the value of music

Inhabiting harmony, the world as a series of relations : an examination of the the Fundamentals of music

Know thyself, the place of humankind within created beauty : an examination of the Consolation of philosophy

The Kantian understanding of the world, the role of beauty, and the value of music

The play of harmony, the subjective powers in relation : an examination of the Critique of judgment

Creating beauty : genius and the work of art

Musical beauty : an enchanted mode of attention.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-206) and index.

ISBN:

9781621890591

1621890597