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Absolute music, mechanical reproduction / Arved Ashby
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TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010Description: xii, 317 pàgines : iI·lustracions, música ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: sense mediació Carrier type: volumISBN: 9780520264809Subject(s): Gould, Glenn -- Crítica i interpretació | Schnabel, Artur, 1882-1951 -- Crítica i interpretació | Enregistraments sonors -- Aspectes socials | Música -- Filosofia i estètica | Pràctica de l'execució (Música) -- S. XX | So -- Enregistrament i reproducció -- Tècniques digitals | Música i tecnologia
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Summary: Recordings are now the primary way we hear classical music, especially the more abstract styles of "absolute" instrumental music. In this original, provocative book, Arved Ashby argues that recording technology has transformed our understanding of art music. Contesting the laments of nostalgic critics, Ashby sees recordings as socially progressive and instruments of a musical vernacular, but also finds that recording and absolute music actually involve similar notions of removing sound from context. He takes stock of technology's impact on classical music, addressing the questions at the heart of the issue. This erudite yet concise study reveals how mechanical reproduction has transformed classical musical culture and the very act of listening, breaking do
The recorded musical text -- Recording, repetition, and memory in absolute music -- Schnabel's rationalism, Gould's pragmatism -- Digital mythologies -- Beethoven and the iPod Nation -- Photo/phono/porno -- Mahler as imagist.
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The recorded musical text -- Recording, repetition, and memory in absolute music -- Schnabel's rationalism, Gould's pragmatism -- Digital mythologies -- Beethoven and the iPod Nation -- Photo/phono/porno -- Mahler as imagist.
Recordings are now the primary way we hear classical music, especially the more abstract styles of "absolute" instrumental music. In this original, provocative book, Arved Ashby argues that recording technology has transformed our understanding of art music. Contesting the laments of nostalgic critics, Ashby sees recordings as socially progressive and instruments of a musical vernacular, but also finds that recording and absolute music actually involve similar notions of removing sound from context. He takes stock of technology's impact on classical music, addressing the questions at the heart of the issue. This erudite yet concise study reveals how mechanical reproduction has transformed classical musical culture and the very act of listening, breaking do
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