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The Musical Image - A Theory of Content (Hardcover, New)
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The Musical Image - A Theory of Content (Hardcover, New)
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A musical phrase, or, for that matter, a musical unit of any size
or shape, becomes an image whenever we imagine it to be invested
with a content whose origins lie outside music. Such a content,
according to the theory developed here, constitutes the image's
conventional significance; it accounts for whatever strikes us
about the image as having a common and familiar ring. That being
so, the origins in question must be coincident with the fundamental
ideas--the archetypes--that have been traditionally represented as
underlying and unifying Western culture. As the theoretical
constructs they are, arehctypes are never encountered directly. It
is in the form of their local variants that we make contact with
the archetypes, and it is at this local level that the present book
sets its sights: style, the typical or shared element in the
musical imagery of a time and place, is studies as a function of
Zeitgeist, the complex of beliefs, values, and ideals of a
community. The approach is both thematic and historical, in keeping
with a key objective of archetypal criticism. Far from repudiating
the popular notion that music expresses the human emotions, this
study attempts to recast emotion theory by examining musical images
for kinds of behavior from which we may infer not only emotion
(pathos, effectus) but also personality (ethos). Ethical and
affective distinctions are very sharply drawn, in an effort to
clarify and widen the vocabulary of musical commentary, as well as
to provide cultural and historical backing for contents long
considered the cliches of musical expression.
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