Being Musically Attuned: The Act of Listening to Music

ISBN-13: 9780367879518 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 286 str.

Erik Wallrup

Opis

Listening according to mood is likely to be what most people do when they listen to music. We want to take part in, or even be part of, the emerging world of the musical work. Erik Wallrup explores this vague and elusive phenomenon, which is held to be fundamental to musical hearing. He unfolds the untold musical history of the German word for ’moo

Spis treści

Part 1 The Concept: Stimmung in music: vicissitudes of a concept 1770-1930.  The philosophy of Stimmung: upheaval and continuity.  Playing in between.  Part 2 Elucidation: History.  Duration.  Aftersong.

O autorze

Erik Wallrup is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stockholm University, Sweden. His fields of research are the philosophy of music and artistic research. Previously, he has published a book on Nietzsche’s philosophy of listening and two novels. He is also co-editor of the Swedish Journal of Music Research and editor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.