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Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction: Notes, a Draft and Two Schemata
Theodor W. Adorno
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Hardback. This book collects together Adornos manifold implications for musical interpretation. His reflections lead to a fundamental study of the nature of notation and musical sense. However, it is the quality of uncertainty in his reflections that indicates the scope of the discourse and its continuing relevance to musical thought today. Editor(s): Lonitz, Henri. Translator(s): Honban, Weiland. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, music. BIC Classification: AVX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
At the beginning of his career in the 1920s, Adorno sketched a plan to write a major work on the theory of musical reproduction, a task he returned to time and again throughout his career but never completed. The choice of the word reproduction as opposed to interpretation indicates a primary supposition: that there is a clearly defined musical text whose precision exceeds what is visible on the page, and that the performer has the responsibility to reproduce it as accurately as possible, beyond simply playing what is written. This task, according to Adorno, requires a detailed understanding of all ... Read more
At the beginning of his career in the 1920s, Adorno sketched a plan to write a major work on the theory of musical reproduction, a task he returned to time and again throughout his career but never completed. The choice of the word reproduction as opposed to interpretation indicates a primary supposition: that there is a clearly defined musical text whose precision exceeds what is visible on the page, and that the performer has the responsibility to reproduce it as accurately as possible, beyond simply playing what is written. This task, according to Adorno, requires a detailed understanding of all ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745631981
SKU
V9780745631981
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About Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno is the author of Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction: Notes, a Draft and Two Schemata, published by Wiley. Henri Lonitz is the editor of Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction: Notes, a Draft and Two Schemata, published by Wiley.
Reviews for Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction: Notes, a Draft and Two Schemata
"Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction addresses the dialectical relation between the musical score (inscription) and its realized sound (performance), the two elements meeting in an act of interpretation, so as to produce what Adorno several times calls the x-ray image of the work, the subcutaneous depth that lies beyond surface manifestation. Adorno's concern is how music means, better how ... Read more