Phonurgia Universalis: Universals in Music
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| Summary: | XII, 238 p. 23 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024. |
| Series: | Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress,
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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.