Music's Making: The Poetry of Music, the Music of Poetry - Softcover

Michael Cherlin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438498462 ISBN 13: 9781438498461

Publisher: SUNY Press, 2025

Synopsis

As a work of musical theory, or meta-theory, Music's Making draws extensively on work done in philosophy and literary criticism in addition to the scholarship of musicologists and music theorists. Music's Making is divided into two large parts. The first half develops global attitudes toward music: emergence out of self and hearing through (drawing on Kabbalah and other sources), middle-voice (as discussed in philosophical phenomenology), liminal space (as discussed in literary theory), an ethics of intersubjectivity (drawing on Levinas), and character, canon, and metaleptic transformations (drawing chiefly on Harold Bloom). The second half embodies a search for metaphors, figurative language toward understanding music's endlessly variegated shaping of time-space. The musicians and scholars who inform this part of the book include Pierre Boulez, Gilles Deleuze, Anton Webern, Morton Feldman, and James Dillon. The book closes with an extended inquiry into the metaphors of horizontal and vertical experience and the spiritual qualities of musical experience expressed through those metaphors.

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About the Author

Michael Cherlin is Professor Emeritus of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Schoenberg's Musical Imagination and Varieties of Musical Irony: From Mozart to Mahler.

Edition details

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438498462
• ISBN 13: 9781438498461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272