On Adorno's Theory of Music and Musical Performance
Contributors: Rodrigo Duarte; Max Paddison; Angelo Martingo; Jean-Paul Olive; Paula Ribeiro; Robert Hullot-Kentor; José Júlio Lopes; António Pinho Vargas; Pedro Boléo; Otto Kolleritsch; Sonja Dierks; Tilo Wesche; Paulo Ferreira de Castro; Mário Vieira de Carvalho
Edition: Edited by Mário Vieira de Carvalho
Series: Ensaios musicológicos
Publisher: Edições Colibri / Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9879727728725
Subjects: Sociology of Music; Philosophy; Aesthetic Theory; Critical Theory; Theodor W. Adorno
Genres: Collected Essays
Description: Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) is one of the most representative German philosophers of the 20th century and of the so-called Frankfurt School. Amongst the main topics of his critical thinking is aesthetic theory, which he developed in particular in many of his essays on music. By dealing mainly with Adorno’s theory of music and musical performance, the essays collected in this book offer critical insights not only into his approach to music, but also his philosophy as a whole. Adorno’s theory of music and musical performance does not merely exemplify his aesthetic theory, but, rather, plays an essential role in the development of it and of his critical approach to culture and society. The constellation in which Adorno’s unity of thought comes to light presupposes, in fact, an essential relationship between his theory of art and his social theory.
Starting from ‘Expression’, ‘truth’ and ‘authenticity’ as key concepts, relevant aspects of Adorno’s musical thought are approached critically in this volume: the link between music and language, and the ‘speech-character’ of art; ‘meaning’, ‘mimesis’, ‘idiom’, and their role in musical interpretation; ‘fetishism’, ‘phantasmagoria’, and the idea of ‘unity of arts’; ‘new music’ and the culture industry; the relation between ethics and aesthetics; the critique of ‘quotation’. Adorno is confronted with Nietzsche, Lyotard and Wittgenstein. Particular emphasis is given to the discussion of his approaches to Schubert, Wagner, Mahler, Berg and Strauss.
Table of contents: pagenum: 5
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label: Contributors; pagenum: 9
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label: Contents; pagenum: 11
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label: Aknowledgments; pagenum: 13
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title: Introduction, by Mário Vieira de Carvalho; pagenum: 27
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title: "Adorno’s Conception of Expression and the Relationship between Music and Philosophy", by Rodrigo Duarte; pagenum: 41
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title: "Reading History in the Ruins of Nature: Images of Truth, Mortality and Reconciliation in Adorno’s Schubert Interpretation", by Max Paddison; pagenum: 59
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title: "The Truth-Finding Role of Interpretation in the Present Abundance if the Musical Repertoire – Concerning the Necessity of a Critical Music Aesthetics", by Otto Kolleritsch; pagenum: 71
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title: "Musical Writing and Performance – About Adorno’s Theory of Musical Performance", by Sonja Dierks; pagenum: 83
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title: "Meaning, Mimesis, Idiom: On Adorno’s Theory of Musical Performance", by Mário Vieira de Carvalho; pagenum: 95
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title: "Adorno Searching for Wagner: Music, Fetishism, and Phantasmagoria", by Pedro Boléo; pagenum: 113
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title: "Enlightening New Music Prisms: Towards a Contemporary Critical Philosophy of New Music", by José Júlio Lopes; pagenum: 121
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title: "On the Use of Adorno by Musicians", by António Pinho Vargas; pagenum: 131
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title: "Ethics and Aesthetics in the Musical Writings of Theodor W. Adorno", by Jean-Paul Olive; pagenum: 145
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title: "The Value of Transgression and Disorder: Richard Strauss in the Light of Adorno’s Theory of Music", by Paula Ribeiro; pagenum: 159
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title: " ‘As speaking entities do artworks live’ – Aesthetics as a Philosophy of Language", by Tilo Wesche; pagenum: 189
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title: " 'Identity is the very Devil!’: Notes on Adorno, Wittgenstein, and Music", by Paulo Ferreira de Castro; pagenum: 209
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title: " ‘Musique informelle’ as Postmodern Thought: Adorno and Lyotard on the Critical Possibility of Art", by Ângelo Martingo; pagenum: 221
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title: "Adorno without Quotation", by Robert Hullot-Kentor; pagenum: 241
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label: Abbreviations of Adorno's Works; pagenum: 243
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label: Bibliography; pagenum: 255
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label: Index