Analysis as Interpretation: Interaction, Intentionality, Invention
This essay advocates analysis of the human-music interaction that articulates what the music does to or for someone (e.g., that it confuses, astonishes, or moves a listener), and how it does so. To connect analysis to musical sensibility, I reframe it as interpretation in the everyday sense in which...
Veröffentlicht in: | Music Theory Spectrum. - Oxford University Press. - 28(2006), 2, Seite 191-209 |
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Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
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Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Music Theory Spectrum |
Schlagworte: | Analysis Interpretation Criticism Intentionality Meaning |
Zusammenfassung: | This essay advocates analysis of the human-music interaction that articulates what the music does to or for someone (e.g., that it confuses, astonishes, or moves a listener), and how it does so. To connect analysis to musical sensibility, I reframe it as interpretation in the everyday sense in which things are "open to interpretation," or in which an interpretation is an account of something that might be taken in a number of ways. I draw together four ideas under this umbrella; analysis as: (1) a meeting between an individual and some music; (2) a characteristic expression of its author; (3) experiences with music; and (4) conceptual and verbal invention.What I advocate might also be called a humanistic psychology of music. |
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ISSN: | 15338339 |
DOI: | 10.1525/mts.2006.28.2.191 |