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Beyond Structural Listening?: Postmodern Modes of Hearing

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In a highly influential essay, Rose Rosengard Subotnik critiques “structural listening” as an attempt to situate musical meaning solely within the unfolding of the musical structure itself. The authors of this volume, prominent young music historians and theorists writing on repertories ranging from Beethoven to MTV, take up Subotnik’s challenge in what is likely to be one of musical scholarship’s intellectual touchstones for many years to come. Original, innovative, and sophisticated, their essays explore not only the implications of the “structural listening” model but also the alternative listening strategies that have developed in specific communities, often in response to twentieth-century Western music.

346 pages, Paperback

First published September 11, 2004

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August 31, 2023
Ein Buch, das ausgehend von einer Kritik an Adornos und Schönbergs strukturalistischen Herangehensweisen versucht, neue, postmoderne Wege des Hörens zu erforschen. Wer müde ob der stukturalistischen Musiktheorie und Funktionsharmonik ist, wie sie auf YouTube (Adam Neely, 12tone) gepredigt wird und im akademischen Betrieb (wo eine feministische Theoretikerin scharf angefeindet wird, weil sie selbst vor dem Meister Beethoven nicht halt macht und seiner Musik „ihr“ Thema aufbindet) eingemauert scheint, der wird hier sicher fündig, auch wenn viele der Versuche hier leider nur Versuche bleiben.
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November 23, 2012
Highly experimental. Some of the experiments (notably by Fink and Dell'Antonio) succeeded, and others fell flat (especially Attinello and Le Guin).
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