Jenny Doctor,Nicky Losseff's "Silence, Music, Silent Music PDF

By Jenny Doctor,Nicky Losseff

ISBN-10: 0754655598

ISBN-13: 9780754655596

The contributions during this quantity concentrate on the ways that silence and track relate, reflect on one another and supply new avenues for addressing and gaining realizing of assorted geographical regions of human endeavour. The booklet maps out this little-explored point of the sonic area with the purpose of defining the breadth of scope and to introduce interdisciplinary paths of exploration as a fashion ahead for destiny discourse. themes addressed comprise the belief of 'silent track' within the paintings of English thinker Peter Sterry and Spanish Jesuit St John of the move; the it seems that paradoxical contemplation of silence in the course of the medium of track via Messiaen and the connection among silence and religion; the aesthetics of Susan Sontag utilized to Cage's proposal of silence; silence as a special technique of figuring out musical texture; methods of brooding about silences in tune produced in the course of remedy periods as a kind of verbal exchange; song and silence in movie, together with the concept that song can functionality as silence; and the functionality of silence in early chant. might be the main all-pervasive subject matter of the ebook is that of silence and nothingness, tune and spirituality: a topic that has seemed in writings on John Cage yet no longer, in a broader feel, in scholarly writing. The ebook finds that unforeseen suggestions and methods of pondering emerge from sound when it comes to its antithesis, encompassing not only Western artwork traditions, however the dating among tune, silence, the human psyche and sociological traits - finally, supplying deeper knowing of the basic locations either song and silence carry inside of global philosophies and primary states of being. Silence, song, Silent tune will entice these operating within the fields of musicology, psychology of faith, gender stories, aesthetics and philosophy.

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