Sound's Arguments: Philosophical Encounters with Music Theory.

[摘要] 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.

[发布机构] University of Michigan

[效力级别] Schenker

[关键词] Music Theory;Schenker;Philosophy;Kant;Hanslick;Dewey;Music and Dance;Philosophy;Arts;Humanities;Music Theory and Philosophy