I have attached below a 2nd presentation of my musicology class – which focuses on how we can analyze how music is produced in addition to the text (using the elements of music). It starts with a few questions which are inspired by Hanslick’s thinking – which can be over viewed as follows
- ¨Interesting to compare view to that of Plato and the late antiquity scholars. Greek Modes for example were deemed to contain emotion.
- ¨Viewed the ‘beauty’ of music as being its formal structure – contained no emotional content within its notes or referred by them
- ¨Influenced by Kant’s concept of being ‘disinterested’
- ¨Leads to some interesting questions:
- ¨Is there a difference between what a piece of music is – and what is known about it?
- ¨What impact does our memory and imagination have on our interpretation of music?
- ¨Is the meaning we hear in the music – or referred by it?
- ¨Do our opinions and words reflect reality – or construct our own version of it?
- ¨What is the impact of the author (composer) on how we interpret music.
- ¨What is the impact of lyrics?
- Can music represent ‘real’ meaning
As with last week – have a look through the presentation below – and post any comments below.
<div style=”margin-bottom:5px”> <strong> <a href=”http://www.slideshare.net/carrp/session-2-song-arrangement-and-track” title=”Session 2 song arrangement and track” target=”_blank”>Session 2 song arrangement and track</a> </strong> from <strong><a href=”http://www.slideshare.net/carrp” target=”_blank”>Paul Carr</a></strong> </div>