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A musical experience is marked by the synthesis of passion and rationality, emotion and understanding, and body and mind. Ferrara demonstrates that each method of musical analysis confines musical significance to a single level: formal methods explain musical syntax; phenemonological methods describe the sound-in-time; and hermeneutic approaches interpret referential meanings. Ferrara devises an eclectic method that provides bridges for musical sound, form, and reference.
In response to the multiplicity of levels of musical significance, Ferrara's eclectic method draws upon a wide-ranging number of conventional and non-conventional approaches to musical analysis which results in a dialectic of methods. Referential meanings are concretized, clarified, and delimited by the degree to which they can be grounded in the sound-in-time and formal elements; the latter are reexamined, expanded, and enriched by referential insights. In the last two chapters, the eclectic method is tested through analyses of works by Bela Bartok and David Zinn. This book is intended for trained music listeners and performers, music analysts, musicologists, and those interested in aesthetics and the development of music and music education.
Sommario
Introduction
Musical Significance and MethodReferential Meaning In Music
Should The Method Define The Tasks? (A Theoretical Framework for Sound, Form, and Reference)
A Philosophical GroundHusserl's Phenomenology
Heidegger's Hermeneutic Phenomenology
Heidegger's Philosophy of Art
Phenomenology and Music
An Eclectic Method for Musical AnalysisAn Eclectic Method for Sound, Form, and Reference
Bela Bartok's Improvisation #3, Opus 20: An Eclectic Analysis
David Zinn's "Spanish Sojourn", 3rd. Mov't.: An Eclectic Analysis
Bibliography
Index
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LAWRENCE FERRARA is a pianist and Professor of Music at New York University where he is Director of Doctoral Studies in the Department of Music and Music Professions. Among his other works are Keyboard Harmony and Improvisation and A Guide to Research in Music (4th Edition), written with Roger Phelps and Thomas Goolsby.
