Music in the Moment - Couverture souple

Levinson, Jerrold

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801474299 ISBN 13 : 9780801474293

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Music, Art, and Metaphysics, Music in the Moment, and The Pleasures of Aesthetics, all from Cornell, and the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801474299
• ISBN 13: 9780801474293
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 196
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• Personne responsable: non disponible