Coessens Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-94-6166-291-0
Verlag: Leuven University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Reihe: Orpheus Institute Series

Embodied
experience and sensorial understandings in Western music

The Western history of aesthetics is characterised by tension between theory
and practice. Musicians listen, play, and then listen more profoundly in order to
play differently, adapt the body, and sense the environment. They become deeply
involved in the sensorial qualities of music practice. Artistic practice refers
to the original meaning of aesthetics—the senses. Whereas Baumgarten and Goethe
explored the relationship between sensibility and reason, sensation and
thinking, later philosophers of aesthetics deemed the sensorial to be confused
and unreliable and instead prioritised a cognitive or objective approach.

Written by authors from the fields of philosophy,
composition, performance, and artistic practice, Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices repositions aesthetics as a
domain of the sensible and explores the interaction between artists, life, and
environment. Aesthetics becomes a field of sensorial and embodied experience
involving temporal and spatial influences, implicit knowledge, and human
characteristics.

Contributors: Kathleen Coessens
(Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, Orpheus Institute), Tim Ingold (University of
Aberdeen), Michaël Levinas (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de
Paris), Fabien Lévy (Hochschule für Musik Detmold), Lasse Thoresen (Norwegian
Academy of Music), Vanessa Tomlinson (Queensland Conservatorium of Music),
Salomé Voegelin (University of the Arts London)

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed
Peer-Reviewed Content).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coessens, Kathleen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION
Kathleen Coessens
SOUND AND SENSE IN MUSICAL PHRASES: FROM THE ART OF THE KEYBOARD TO THE QUESTION OF PHRASE AND MELODYMichaël Levinas
Intermezzo 1
ON THE SENSORIAL OF AESTHETICSKathleen Coessens
NOISE, SOUND, SILENCETim Ingold
Intermezzo 2
ON THE SENSORIAL OF MUSIC AND BREATHINGKathleen Coessens
SENSE VERSUS SENSITIVITY IN COMPOSITION: A PHONEY DEBATE?Fabien Lévy
Intermezzo 3
ON THE SENSORIAL OF HUMAN BEINGSKathleen Coessens
EXTREME INTERPRETATION?SOME OBSERVATIONS ON RACHMANINOFF’S VERSION OF CHOPIN’S THIRD BALLADE IN A-FLAT MAJOR, OP. 47Lasse Thoresen
Intermezzo 4
ON THE SENSORIAL OF THE HUMAN BODY IN PERFORMANCEKathleen Coessens
REFLECTIONS ON THE POLITICS OF SENTIMENTSCORE FOR PERFORMING THE CRITICALITY OF A SONIC SENSIBILITYSalomé Voegelin
Intermezzo 5
ON THE SENSORIAL OF IMAGINATION Kathleen Coessens and Vanessa Tomlinson
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORSINDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Coessens, Kathleen
Kathleen Coessens is director of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and associate researcher at the Orpheus Institute, Ghent.