Music in the Moment / Jerrold Levinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levinson, Jerrold, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Musical perception.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 184 p. :) music ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What is required for a listener to understand a piece of music? Does aural understanding depend upon reflective awareness of musical architecture or large-scale musical structure? Jerrold Levinson thinks not. In contrast to what is commonly assumed, Levinson argues that basic understanding of music only requires properly grounded, present-focused attention, and that virtually everything in the comprehension of extended pieces of music that suggests explicit architectonic awareness can be explained without positing conscious grasp of relationships across broad spans.Levinson rejects the notion that keeping music's large-scale form before the mind is somehow essential to fundamental understanding of it. As evidence, he describes in detail the experience of listening to a wide range of music. He defends, with some qualifications, the views of nineteenth-century musician and psychologist Edmund Gurney, author of The Power of Sound, who argued that musical comprehension requires only attention to the evolution of music from moment to moment.Music theory standardly misapprehends the experience and mindset of most who know and love classical music, concludes Levinson. His book is a defense of the passionate and attentive, though architectonically unconcerned, music listener.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Musical Illustrations

Preface / Levinson, Jerrold

1. Edmund Gurney And The Experience Of Music

2. Statement And Elaboration Of Concatenationism

3. Initial Defense Of Concatenationism

4. Concatenationism And Causality

5. Large-Scale Relationships In Music

6. Sonata And Other Forms

7. Further Challenges I

8. Further Challenges II

9. Concatenationism, Musical Value, And Musical Form

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-179) and index.

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ISBN:

9781501727665

1501727664

OCLC:

1132664759