Title (eng)
Life as an Aesthetic Idea of Music
Author
Manos Perrakis
Editor
Author
Andreas Dorschel
Author
Julian Johnson
Royal Holloway, University of London
Author
Kathrin Kirsch
Christian-Albrechts Universität Kiel
Author
Maria João Neves
New University of Lisbon, Center of Studies of Sociology and Musical Aesthetics (CESEM)
Author
Nanette Nielsen
University of Oslo, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rythm, Time and Motion
Author
Michael Spitzer
University of Liverpool
Author
Benedict Taylor
University of Edinburgh
Author
Markos Tsetsos
University of Athens
Author
Laura Tunbridge
University of Oxford
Abstract (eng)
The volume at hand presents an inquiry about life as an aesthetic idea of music. If music, above all purely instrumental, 'absolute' music expresses aesthetic ideas, and even the idea of the aesthetic idea itself as an affective substrate of language and culture, as Kant claimed, then the most inclusive aesthetic idea cannot be but life. No wonder then that there have been compositions ambitious enough to address this most inclusive idea and the indefinite object of life directly in their titles and programmes, such as Carl Nielsen's Fourth Symphony The Inextinguishable. If the object of life is indefinite, a necessarily complementary strategy to approach life as an aesthetic idea of music is to trace compositions addressing the aesthetic ideas closest to it. Subjectivity, process, heroism, emerging presence, eccentric positionality, virtual temporality, biography, all these are ideas that explicate, transcend, and dramatize life.
Type (eng)
book
Language
[eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.kug.ac.at/o:104505
Publication
Universal Edition: Vienna London New York
Version type (eng)
version of record (published version)
Association (eng)
Field of Research: Aesthetics of Music
Access rights (eng)
open access
License
All rights reserved