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Performance Analysis
This collection of essays highlights different questions concerning music theory, interpretation, and performance. Organized into four chapters, the first section looks into interpretation from a hermeneutic perspective, whereas the second analyses the application of this knowledge in musical practice. The discussion turns, in the third part, to a new field of music theory broadly labelled as performance studies. Focused on physical and psychological events, this section broaches fundamental issues such as gesture, bodily movement, expression, emotion, a whole set of processes that act within the framework of performance. The final section addresses the artistic practices in the 21st century across present-day cultural contexts. Proposing a space for reflection in which one tries to imagine the relation between the scientific field and the interpretative process, this volume reflects the central issues of research in performance analysis, establishing connections between different disciplines, methodologies and research trends. It will be of essential interest to researchers, musicians and performers, and music students.
Perspectives on Contemporary Musical Practices
This volume sheds light on the wide range of perspectives on musical activity today, and shows how it can be analyzed from different points of view, working within a diverse theoretical framework. It is organized into three sections, the first of which discusses the changing contexts of musical work compositions over the 20th century. The second part offers a rich and in-depth musical analysis, rigorously connected to the performative and interpretative dimension, while the third considers the relationship between technology and music, and its influence on the creation of new paradigms for musical performance and creation. Covering practical and theoretical problems, the collection will be of great interest to scholars, professionals, students of music, composers, and performers.
Philosophical Considerations on Contemporary Music
The musical universe of the 20th and 21st centuries is a force-field in which styles, instruments, personalities and stories can be found that are ascribable to conceptual frameworks that may differ greatly one from another. Such complexity cannot be traced back to single theories or all-encompassing interpretations, but may be tackled, philosophically, starting from certain characteristics. This book identifies nine such characteristics: namely, Extremes, Noise, Silence, Technology, Audience, Listening, Freedom, Disintegration, and New Media. Each of these permits us to open up unforeseen philosophical-cultural paths and interpret, in its multifarious variety, the developments of contemporary music, profoundly interwoven with the history of thought, culture and society.
Adorno’s Aesthetics as a Literary Theory of Art
This book re-examines Adorno’s aesthetics, developing a new literary approach that aims to unveil hidden elements of Adorno’s thought. Farina proposes to read Adorno’s aesthetics as a literary theory of art, showing its efficacy in its comprehension of the most advanced trends of contemporary literature. As a result, this book provides an image of Adorno’s aesthetics as a complete, satisfying and consistent philosophy of literature, a robust theory which is able to stand its ground in contemporary aesthetic debate. Challenging the prevalent prejudice that defines Adorno’s thought, and especially his aesthetics, as ‘modernist’, Farina argues that Adorno's philosophy of literature shows its value precisely in its application to and comprehension of postmodern literature, such as the works of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace. Precise and compelling, this book provides a new paradigm for understanding Adorno’s theory of artwork, serving as an essential reference for researches investigating the relation between classical critical theory and contemporary art.
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Questa breve, densa monografia che Alberto Fassone dedica a Wilhelm Furtwängler restituisce la figura del leggendario direttore d’orchestra e compositore tedesco sotto una luce squisitamente filosofica, speculativa. Lungi dal costituire un estrinseco intreccio di interessi, la filosofia e la musica qui convergono, nel mostrare le loro analogie strutturali nella cosa stessa. In queste pagine, possiamo analizzare la personalità di Wilhelm Furtwängler come pensatore e come musicista “pratico”, come teorico e come compositore, come finissimo analizzatore della materia musicale, e come lettore della grande letteratura e della grande filosofia. Collocata al crocevia di dibattiti filosofici essenziali, la figura di Furtwängler tratteggiata da Alberto Fassone acquista tutta la sua importanza e la sua peculiarità intellettuale, ben oltre i confini di una mera “archiviazione” storico-musicale. La figura di Furtwängler che possiamo qui apprezzare è quella di un pensatore-musicista, che maneggia e custodisce i segreti della composizione, riflettendo incessantemente sul tormentato percorso che consente di realizzarli nella vivente pratica dell’interpretazione musicale.
La cultura musicale degli italiani
Una riflessione del tutto inedita sull’entità e la qualità della consapevolezza musicale degli italiani lungo tutto il Novecento, che va oltre le limitazioni di “genere” e abbraccia una definizione il più ampia possibile di “cultura”: si prende in considerazione infatti non solo il “sapere” musicale strettamente inteso, dunque, ma - allargandosi su una declinazione di campo culturale più aggiornata dal punto di vista teoretico e storiografico – ogni tipo di esperienza che può configurarsi come pratica culturale. Le grandi direttrici di ricerca individuate sono tre: 1) la formazione musicale all’interno dei percorsi educativi istituzionali e i percorsi formativi non ist...
Perchè Domenica
A cura di Stefano Salis Un libro per celebrare un anniversario importante per l’inserto di approfondimento culturale, in edicola ogni domenica con Il Sole 24 Ore, che in quarant’anni ha raccontato e spiegato i cambiamenti del paese e del mondo, con rigore e spirito critico. Curato da Stefano Salis, oggi responsabile della Domenica cui partecipa da quasi vent’anni, il libro raccoglie gli articoli che hanno fatto epoca, firmati dai collaboratori storici, dai responsabili che si sono succeduti e dalla redazione di oggi. Il racconto di come si sono trasformate la cultura e l’economia della cultura nel corso di quattro decenni.
Babelonline
Rivista online di Filosofia Chaos/Kosmos
Contemporary Piano Music
This collection addresses different issues involving performance and musical creation in contemporary piano music. Organised into three sections, it examines the aesthetic and technical aspects of musical creation in the 20th century, and evaluates the questions that these aspects pose regarding the interpretative and performative process. It also offers a reflection on artistic practices in the 21st century, and explores their contribution to redefining the contemporary performative field.
