Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction: Notes, a Draft and Two Schemata - Rilegato

Adorno, Theodor W.

 
9780745631981: Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction: Notes, a Draft and Two Schemata
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ISBN 10: 0745631983 ISBN 13: 9780745631981
Casa editrice: Polity Pr, 2006

Sinossi

At the beginning of his career in the 1920s, Adorno sketched a plan to write a major work on the theory of musical reproduction, a task he returned to time and again throughout his career but never completed. The choice of the word reproduction as opposed to interpretation indicates a primary supposition: that there is a clearly defined musical text whose precision exceeds what is visible on the page, and that the performer has the responsibility to reproduce it as accurately as possible, beyond simply playing what is written. This task, according to Adorno, requires a detailed understanding of all musical parameters in their historical context, and his reflections upon this task lead to a fundamental study of the nature of notation and musical sense.

In the various notes and texts brought together in Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction, one finds Adorno constantly circling around an irresolvable paradox: interpretation can only fail the work, yet only through it can musics true essence be captured. While he at times seems more definite in his pronouncement of a musical scores absolute value just as a book is read silently, not aloud his discourse repeatedly displays his inability to cling to that belief. It is this quality of uncertainty in his reflections that truly indicates the scope of the discourse and its continuing relevance to musical thought and practice today.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Theodor W. Adorno is the author of Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction: Notes, a Draft and Two Schemata, published by Wiley.

Henri Lonitz is the editor of Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction: Notes, a Draft and Two Schemata, published by Wiley.

Dalla quarta di copertina

At the beginning of his career in the 1920s, Adorno sketched a plan to write a major work on the theory of musical reproduction, a task he returned to time and again throughout his career but never completed. The choice of the word reproduction as opposed to interpretation indicates a primary supposition: that there is a clearly defined musical text whose precision exceeds what is visible on the page, and that the performer has the responsibility to reproduce it as accurately as possible, beyond simply playing what is written. This task, according to Adorno, requires a detailed understanding of all musical parameters in their historical context, and his reflections upon this task lead to a fundamental study of the nature of notation and musical sense.

In the various notes and texts brought together in Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction, one finds Adorno constantly circling around an irresolvable paradox: interpretation can only fail the work, yet only through it can musics true essence be captured. While he at times seems more definite in his pronouncement of a musical scores absolute value just as a book is read silently, not aloud his discourse repeatedly displays his inability to cling to that belief. It is this quality of uncertainty in his reflections that truly indicates the scope of the discourse and its continuing relevance to musical thought and practice today.

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Editore
Polity Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2006
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0745631983
ISBN 13 
9780745631981
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
278
Redattore
Lonitz Henri
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9780745631998: Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction: Notes, a Draft and Two Schemata

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ISBN 10:  0745631991 ISBN 13:  9780745631998
Casa editrice: Polity, 2006
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