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Timbre - Paradox, Materialism, Vibrational Aesthetics (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,445
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Timbre - Paradox, Materialism, Vibrational Aesthetics (Hardcover): Isabella Van Elferen

Timbre - Paradox, Materialism, Vibrational Aesthetics (Hardcover)

Isabella Van Elferen

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Timbre is among the most important and the most elusive aspects of music. Visceral and immediate in its sonic properties, yet also considered sublime and ineffable, timbre finds itself caught up in metaphors: tone "color", "wet" acoustics, or in Schoenberg's words, "the illusory stuff of our dreams." This multi-disciplinary approach to timbre assesses the acoustic, corporeal, performative, and aesthetic dimensions of tone color in Western music practice and philosophy. It develops a new theorization of timbre and its crucial role in the epistemology of musical materialism through a vital materialist aesthetics in which conventional binaries and dualisms are superseded by a vibrant continuum. As the aesthetic and epistemological questions foregrounded by timbre are not restricted to isolated periods in music history or individual genres, but have pervaded Western musical aesthetics since early Modernity, the book discusses musical examples taken from both "classical" and "popular" music. These range, in "classical" music, from the Middle Ages through the Baroque, the belcanto opera and electronic music to saturated music; and, in "popular" music, from indie through soul and ballad to dark industrial.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2020
Authors: Isabella Van Elferen (Professor of Music)
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-6581-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Techniques of music > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Music > Techniques of music > General
Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
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LSN: 1-5013-6581-9
Barcode: 9781501365812

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