The Orphic I: A Philosophical Approach to Musical Collaboration: 8 (Studies in Historical Philosophy) - Softcover

Dean, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3838216296 ISBN 13: 9783838216294

Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon, 2023

Synopsis

The Orphic I: A Philosophical Approach to Musical Collaboration starts from the premise that music is a realm of intersubjective human experience. Drawing on ideas common to both hermeneutic and pragmatic aesthetics, it examines forms of collaboration involving those who create, perform, and listen to music. A new interpretation of the Orpheus myth suggests a model for thinking about creative interactions where composer and performer adopt each other's perspectives. This imaginative transfer of self--the Orphic I--has significant implications, both for the listener's perception of authenticity in musical performance, and for the interactions of performers within a musical ensemble. Empathy and entrainment emerge as seminal animating forces in group music-making, providing a non-verbal basis for ethical decision-making among group members.

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About the Authors

Geoffrey Dean, PhD, served on the music faculty of the American University in Bulgaria for over twenty years. He has performed internationally as a chamber musician and recitalist and premiered many new works at his AmBul Festival of American and Bulgarian Music. His articles have appeared in the Sofia Philosophical Review, Bulgarian Musicology, and Strings Magazine, and his transcriptions have been heard around the world. Now living in Minneapolis, he leads the orchestra program at Parnassus Preparatory School, a leading US institution for classical education.

Donald Phillip Verene is Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Emory University and Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He is the author of numerous books, including Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge, Knowledge of Things Human and Divine, Vico’s New Science: A Philosophical Commentary, and The Rhetorical Sense of Philosophy.

Edition details

• Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3838216296
• ISBN 13: 9783838216294
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156