Historical Formalism in Music: Toward a Philosophical Theory of Musical Form
Contemporary Aesthetics, 2014 In this paper I begin to fashion a theory of musical form that I call historical formalism. Historical formalism posits that our perception of the formal properties of a musical work is informed by considerations not only of artistic categories but also
Andrea Baldini
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Immanuel Kant on Music: Paradoxes of Aesthetic Rationalism
Современные проблемы музыкознания, 2021 The article explores the reasons behind the inconsistency of Kant's perspective on the art of music. Kant’s aesthetics is a strict and harmonious system underpinning the analysis of aesthetic consciousness.
Tatyana P. Razbeglova
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Eduard Hanslick's formalism and his most influential contemporary critics [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2014 The paper deals with the formalistic view on music presented in Eduard Hanslick's treatise On the Musically Beautiful, which is taken to be the founding work of the aesthtetics of music.
Srećković Sanja
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Exploring Sonic Meaning and Embodiment in Human Cultural Transmission From a Pedagogical Perspective
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 The authors explore how sonic materials, specifically everyday sounds and songs, create and communicate personal, sociocultural, and ecological meanings. From the lulling passages of a pastoral movement streaming through a symphony hall to the rollicking
Rebecca Rinsema, Jashen Edwards
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Formalistic analysis of the three domains of language, music and aesthetics in "Arghavan" a poem by Hushang Ebtehaj [PDF]
Literary Arts, 2018 Based on the formalism school, the discovery of the beauty of a text, or so-called "text literacy", is one of the most important issues to be considered in the critique of a literary work.
mohsen zolfaghary +2 more
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Investigating the Reason for the Distinction between Skaz and the Magic of Proximity in Two Sonnets by Fazel Nazari [PDF]
Literary Arts, 2022 Formalism is a school that looks at literary works regardless of possible historical, social, and political influences. Skaz is the tone of the narrator of a poem or story.
Ziba Ghalavandi +1 more
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Composition of Vocal Music. Against Primacy of Content
Studia Musicologica Norvegica, 2020 This article critically examines the common idea that language itself carries pure content, while the acoustic or musical dimensions are something additional.
Rebecka Sofia Ahvenniemi
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Musical Offerings, 2018 In every age, philosophers deal with inquiries concerning musical meaning and the effect of music on the listener. Instead of answering the formidable question of musical meaning, this essay demonstrates the parallel aspects of three musical theories ...
Amanda N. Staufer
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Soundscapes of Possible Minds: Meditational Cybernetics in Brian Eno’s Ambient Music
Pulse, 2022 This article contributes a media ecological approach towards relevant topics within Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Critical AI studies concerning cybernetics, the boundaries of consciousness, neural plasticity, and sensorial awareness, by way ...
Megan Phipps
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From Research on the Musical “Trans-avant-garde”: A Contribution to the Discussion on the Terminology Concerning the Historiography of 20th Century Polish Music [PDF]
Avant, 2006 The research article discusses the concept of “the trans-avant-garde” (a term coined by the Italian art critic Achille Bonito Oliva to describe certain phenomena in visual arts, especially painting, which have appeared since the end of the 1970s) and ...
Monika Karwaszewska
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