Sound's Arguments: Philosophical Encounters with Music Theory.
dc.contributor.author | Parkhurst, Bryan J. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-13T18:18:57Z | |
dc.date.available | NO_RESTRICTION | en_US |
dc.date.available | 2014-10-13T18:18:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.date.submitted | 2014 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/108772 | |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation is comprised of two big essays. The first seeks to understand what is at stake in the project of music analysis writ large. I argue for adopting a conception of musical analysis as a practical activity oriented toward the having of what Dewey calls "integral experiences." I cash out this idea with help from Wittgenstein's notion of aspect perception ("seeing as"), whose musical applications I demonstrate in a discussion of Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata. I then use my model of music analysis to give a reading of David Lewin's analysis of Schubert's "Morgengruss." The second essay seeks to understand what is at stake in the project of Schenkerian musical analysis in particular. I offer an extended reconstruction of Schenker's theory of organic unity in response to objections to Schenker's "necessitarian" language, i.e. his penchant for claiming that a musical masterwork must be as it is (in some to-be-determined sense of "must"). I accomplish this by giving a normative reading of Schenker's theory of absolute music, a reading which understands Schenker's musical absolutism as at root a theory of the proper norms of musical hearing. I then argue that the observance of these norms induces one to explain musical structures teleologically. Schenker's necessitarian language, I contend, makes sense once it is situated within the context of Kant's theory of biological explanation, as set out in his Critique of Teleological Judgment, the second half of his Critique of the Power of Judgment. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Music Theory | en_US |
dc.subject | Schenker | en_US |
dc.subject | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.subject | Kant | en_US |
dc.subject | Hanslick | en_US |
dc.subject | Dewey | en_US |
dc.title | Sound's Arguments: Philosophical Encounters with Music Theory. | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreename | PhD | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Music Theory and Philosophy | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantor | University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Walton, Kendall L. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Satyendra, Ramon | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Caston, Victor | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Korsyn, Kevin E. | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Music and Dance | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Arts | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Humanities | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/108772/1/brypark_1.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Dissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's) |
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