Music and the Ineffable
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (637 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691090475 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jankélévitch's singular work on music was central to such figures as Roland Barthes and Catherine Clément, and the complex textures and rhythms of his lyrical prose sound a unique note, until recently seldom heard outside the francophone world.. Yet if musical works are not a cipher awaiting the decoder, music is nonetheless entwined with human experience, and with the physical, material reality of music in performance. On the other hand, music cannot be imprisoned within the icy, morbid notion of pure structure or autonomous discourse. Music is "ineffable," as Jankélévitch puts it, because it cannot be pinned down, and has a capacity to engender limitless resonance in several domains. These are a point of departure for a sustained examination and dismantling of the idea of musical hermeneutics in its conventional sense.Music, Jankélévitch argues, is not a hieroglyph, not a language or sig
Still provocative after 40 years, this book offers fascinating, fresh, and Occasionally befuddling perspectives on the vital phenomenon that is music."--Choice. "Among significant influences in 20th-century philosophical thought on music, perhaps none is as sweeping as that of Vladimir Jankélévitch. Yet until now his works have not been widely available in English
what? Guess it's my fault.I did not pay attention that this book is on the ineffability and the music of one musicianExcept that, it's quite well-organized.