Music, Time, and Its Other : Aesthetic Reflections on Finitude, Temporality, and Alterity / Roger W. H. Savage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savage, Roger W. H., author.

Series:

Routledge research in music.

Routledge Research in Music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Time--Philosophy.

Time.

Time in music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.

Summary:

"Music, Time, and Its Other explores the relation between the enigmatic character of our temporal experiences and music's affective power. By taking account of competing concepts of time, Savage explains how music refigures dimensions of our experiences through staking out the borderlines between time and eternity. He examines a range of musical expressions that reply to the deficiency born from the difference between time and an order that exceeds or surpasses it, and reveals how affective tonalities of works by Bach, Carolan, Debussy, Schoenberg, Messiaen, and Glass augment our understanding of our temporal condition. Reflections on the moods and feelings to which music gives voice counterpoint philosophical investigations into the relation between music's power to affect us and the force that the present has with respect to the initiatives we take. Music, Time, and Its Other thus sets out a new approach to music, aesthetics, politics, and the critical roles of judgment and imagination."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

chapter Introduction

chapter 1 Music and time

chapter 2 The myth of Syrinx

chapter 3 3To the glory of God

chapter 4 Hope’s despair

chapter 5 Figure of solicitude

chapter 6 The ends of time

chapter 7 7Mimesis, aesthetic experience, and politics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-19193-5

1-315-56347-9

1-317-19194-3

9781315563473

OCLC:

994497928