Phonurgia Universalis: Universals in Music

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Main Author: Mâche, François-Bernard (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XII, 238 p. 23 illus.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
Edition:1st ed. 2024.
Series:Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress, 28
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58509-8
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Theme The Search for the Universal
  • 2 Analysis Distributional analysis, advantages and limitations Its provisional relevance in the search for archetypes
  • 3 Animal polyphonies Universality of polyphonies Analogy with animal choirs and duets Possible purposes
  • 4 Archetype Where to look for the models of human musical nature?
  • 5 Convergence Analogies or homologies between animal signals and human music The shortcomings of culturalism, and in particular of diffusionism
  • 6 Fixed forms The formal organisations of poems are sonorous and concern the problem of the common origins of music and language The forms of repetition constitute their essential part
  • 7 Genotype Shorthand and programmes Animal and human examples of alternation and conflict
  • 8 Innate Interaction of the innate and the acquired Archetypes as innate schemes
  • 9 Language and music Hypothesis of common origin, explaining strong formal analogies Mantras, glossolalies, lettrism Language models for the composer
  • 10 Litany Close union of language and music in the litany The four magical, laudative, didactic and rhetorical functions, and their links with musical forms
  • 11 Models Pure music or external models Antiquity of problems, from Plato to Rousseau Global models and analysis
  • 12 Modernity Modernity and individualism Post-modernity and pastism
  • 13 Myth Mythical level and archetype Evolutionism and transmission of archetypes Myth as a minimum common to all cultures
  • 14 Nature Noise and nature Culturalism and naturalism Third phenomenological way
  • 15 Ostinato Primary impulses and cultural developments of ostinato
  • 16 Phenotype: The universality of certain sound forms refers to universal processes These alone can explain the very strong similarities found in cultures with no historical contacts
  • 17 Playing music Communication and playing associated with the source of the music Music and sound ecology
  • 18 Refrain Refrain and stanza Formalism and expression across different languages and poetic and musical styles Problems of multiple and varied refrains The refrain as a way of controlling time
  • 19 Repetition A musical universal of primary importance A musician’s reading of some metaphysicians and aestheticians Repetition, innovation, learning: music as an image of life
  • 20 Speaking instruments A brief overview of whistled and drummed languages, etc, at the crossroads of play, language and music
  • 21 Strophe A universal form, also present in many bird songs Phenotype or genotype?
  • 22 Style From impersonal archetype to originality Archetypes and stereotypes: the need for a hierarchy of values
  • 23 Universal The need for a universal musicology Methods of approach and criteria of universality: phenotypes, genotypes, archetypes
  • 24 Variation Synthesis of myth and history The “material” as a reification of schemas from the unconscious, and variation as a conscious treatment Failure of music where nothing varies as well as music where everything varies Universality of certain processes of variation
  • 25 Zoömusicology New bioacoustic knowledge and musicological skills Distributional analysis and acoustic and functional categorisation Animal syntagms and paradigms, musical analogies.