Form vs. Work (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Ildar Khannanov | knygos.lt

Aprašymas

The antinomy of musical work and musical form has been and remains urgent and universally significant. Musical work is complete and all-inclusive; therefore, it should be a goal of any study. However, the field of music theory had developed formal approaches to musical structures and processes that have become self-sufficient and epistemologically sovereign. Analysis of musical form proved to be more efficient in a deeper comprehension of the musical essence than the holistic approach to musical work. The latter often suffers from overgeneralization and superficiality. Obviously, such a monumental opposition as work vs. form asks for a larger and substantial discussion, which the author intended to accomplish in this book.

This book covers the events related to the binary opposition of form vs. work, that is, the interaction of formalists and integralists. It also presents the history and evolution of the Soviet music theory viewed from the standpoint of an insider. Russian and Soviet theorists approached the same urgent problems as their Western counterparts, including form vs. work. The Russian and Soviet traditions have always been very conservative. Quite paradoxically, reading the texts of the Russian music theory may allow us to restore, or at least to revisit, some valuable concepts and approaches that were abandoned during the revolutionary events in the Western music theory of the twentieth century.