The musical image : a theory of content

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The musical image : a theory of content

Laurence Berman

(Contributions to the study of music and dance, no. 30)

Greenwood Press, 1993

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [374]-382) and indexes

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内容説明

A musical phrase, or, for that matter, a musical unit of any size or shape, becomes an image whenever we imagine it to be invested with a content whose origins lie outside music. Such a content, according to the theory developed here, constitutes the image's conventional significance; it accounts for whatever strikes us about the image as having a common and familiar ring. That being so, the origins in question must be coincident with the fundamental ideas--the archetypes--that have been traditionally represented as underlying and unifying Western culture. As the theoretical constructs they are, arehctypes are never encountered directly. It is in the form of their local variants that we make contact with the archetypes, and it is at this local level that the present book sets its sights: style, the typical or shared element in the musical imagery of a time and place, is studies as a function of Zeitgeist, the complex of beliefs, values, and ideals of a community. The approach is both thematic and historical, in keeping with a key objective of archetypal criticism. Far from repudiating the popular notion that music expresses the human emotions, this study attempts to recast emotion theory by examining musical images for kinds of behavior from which we may infer not only emotion (pathos, effectus) but also personality (ethos). Ethical and affective distinctions are very sharply drawn, in an effort to clarify and widen the vocabulary of musical commentary, as well as to provide cultural and historical backing for contents long considered the cliches of musical expression.

目次

Introduction and Theory Archetypal Criticism, or an Alternate Poetics of Music The Archetypal Model Music in Ritual and Education: Ethos Dialectic between Ethos and Pathos in Ancient Greek Thought Ethos of the Christian Liturgy Ethos of Courtly Love Classical Humanism: Pathos Reawakening of Pathos Emotional Music, or the Rhetorical Variety of Pathos The Pastoral Mode, I The Pastoral Mode, II The Epic/Heroic Mode The Satiric Mode The Many Faces of Classicism Transcendental Humanism ... and Beyond: Logos Romanticism and Melodrama Innigkeit, the Romantic Alternative Age of Irony: Modernist Music Formalist Alterations of the Archetypes Epilogue Analysis and Culture Bibliography Subject Index Music Index

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