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Journal of Music Theory (2000) 44 (2): 487–494.
Published: 01 October 2000
...Kofi Agawu The Aesthetics of Music Roger Scruton New York: Oxford University Press, 530 pp., 1999 xx, 530 pp 2000 © Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 2000 REVIEWS
The Aesthetics of Music
Roger Scruton
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997; paperback ed., 1999
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (2): 283–310.
Published: 01 October 2010
... change in musical structures. Yet this historical dimension, in many ways typical of its era, is complicated by a tenuous balance between the determinism demanded by rigorous scientific explanation and Helmholtz's evident desire to preserve a complex role for the “choice” of fundamental aesthetic...
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 75–90.
Published: 01 April 2010
... importance to modernist art. It functions as a metaphor in se , representing Cavell's hypothetical example of a solution to a compositional problem that “has become identical with the aesthetic result itself.” Lachenmann's Kontrakadenz (1970–71) concerns itself with the strained relation of artwork...
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (2): 287–323.
Published: 01 October 2021
... formal types were compatible with Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk aesthetic, and the analytic method suggests a path toward further engagement with other nineteenth-century opera and other genres that combine music, text, and dramatic storytelling. While the above examples vary widely in their level...
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in The Transformation of Prewar Blues into Postwar Rhythm and Blues: The Great Migration, Urbanization, and Form
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Published: 01 October 2023
, upbeat aesthetic of postwar rhythm and blues.
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Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (2): 167–220.
Published: 01 October 2011
... . 1997 . “ Idealism and the Aesthetics of Instrumental Music at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century .” Journal of the American Musicological Society 50/2–3 : 387 – 420 . Bowman Wayne . 1998 . Philosophical Perspectives on Music . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Brower Candace...
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (2): 433–449.
Published: 01 October 2013
... as ever.
Of course, several scholars have continued to transmit (and translate)
the dynamic changes in scholarship on Boulez in recent years to new read-
ers. However, for the broad contingent of American scholars, knowledge of
Boulez’s aesthetics and compositions remains as dated as his...
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Journal of Music Theory (2000) 44 (1): 127–169.
Published: 01 April 2000
... of Syntax and Structure.” In Musical Humanism and its Legacy: Essays in Honor of Claude V. Palisca , eds. Nancy Kovaleff Baker and Barbara Russano Hanning, 419 -49. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press. Baker, Nancy and Thomas Christensen, eds. 1995 . Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition...
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 25–36.
Published: 01 April 2010
..., decades
and worldviews later, the most arresting part of the essay.
“Music Discomposed” is concerned primarily to show that the problem
of “fraudulence”—the old Philistine question “But is it artis endemic to
the experience of aesthetic modernism...
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 183–193.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... April 1910 , 256 – 69 . Leipzig : Barth . Translated by Gerd Grupe as “On the Significance of Ethnological Studies for the Psychology and Aesthetics of Musical Art.” Translingual Discourse in Ethnomusicology 1: 1–12. Wegman Rob C. 1998 . “ ‘Das Musikalische Hören’ in the Middle Ages...
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Journal of Music Theory (2000) 44 (1): 231–236.
Published: 01 April 2000
...”) as essential
qualities of Stravinsky’s music which set it apart from that of the Austro-
Germanic tradition. Taruskin tends to view Stravinsky’s “otherness” as
essentially geographic and cultural, while for Cross, it is a matter of his
break with a bygone aesthetic. Insofar as modernism represents...
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 61–74.
Published: 01 April 2010
... the lie to the formalism that dominated midcentury Anglo-
American aesthetics. Against those (like Monroe Beardsley and William
Wimsatt) who held that the artist’s intentions were of little matter in aesthetic
judgment, Cavell countered that art’s significance was not to be located solely...
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Journal of Music Theory (2017) 61 (1): 59–109.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of Musical Formalism.” Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 22 / 40–41 : 75 – 88 . Aristotle . 2001 . The Basic Works of Aristotle . Edited by McKeon Richard . New York : Modern Library . Arndt Matthew . 2008 . “Schenker and Schoenberg on the Tone and Genius.” Ph.D. diss...
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (1): 151–158.
Published: 01 April 2013
... of pro-
cessual form since its publication.
Schmalfeldt begins by citing Dahlhaus’s reading of the “Tempest”
Sonata’s ambiguous opening as an epitome of form-as-process: is it an intro-
duction or is it the main theme proper? For Dahlhaus, “the ambiguity should
be understood as an aesthetic...
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (1): 1–45.
Published: 01 April 2013
... Theodor . 1997 . Aesthetic Theory . Edited by Adorno Gretel Tiedemann Rolf . Translated by Hullot-Kentor Robert . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Anderson Julian . 1989 . “ Dans le contexte .” Entretemps 8 : 13 – 23 . ———. 2001 . “ Spectral Music...
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 37–60.
Published: 01 April 2010
... us, first, to the distance of his basic aesthetic orientation from that
of postmodernism, and second, to the disorienting quality his approach must
have had in its own time.
Evidence of the first point is not difficult to find. Cavell is adamant...
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Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (1): 161–166.
Published: 01 April 2011
... is that a change of tempo can be interesting
in its own right, irrespective of the material that actualizes that change. The
second is that it is the unusual that is aesthetically better (“what’s really inter-
esting with no theorization of the grounds for this aesthetic position. This
failure...
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (2): 291–301.
Published: 01 October 2006
... as the written trace
of an unconscious vibration uniting all of humanity (Welsh 2003). In this con-
text, though, Jackson is less interested in aesthetics per se than in Chladni’s
ability, as an individual researcher and businessman, to function at a “nodal
point” between multiple fields of interest...
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (2): 293–296.
Published: 01 October 2020
... repertoire, philo- sophical writings, and visual culture. For Desmond, the ars nova is more than a compositional style. It is a cultural aesthetic embedded in an innovative notational practice emblematic of prevailing scholastic and philosophical mindsets. In chapter 1 Desmond distances her work from earlier...
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Journal of Music Theory (2003) 47 (2): 273–304.
Published: 01 October 2003
... Baker. 1995 . Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment: Selected Writings of Johann Georg Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chua, Daniel K. L. 1999 . Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning . Cambridge: Cambridge...
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