Philosophy and the Analysis of Music: Bridges to Musical Sound, Form and Reference - Softcover

Ferrara, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 093501666X ISBN 13: 9780935016666

Publisher: Excelsior Music Pub. Co., 1991

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"Ferrara is engaging when he is summarizing and commenting on the works of Meyer, Clifton, Heidegger, and others."-Notes

?Ferrara is engaging when he is summarizing and commenting on the works of Meyer, Clifton, Heidegger, and others.?-Notes

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Excelsior Music Pub. Co.
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 093501666X
• ISBN 13: 9780935016666
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360