[Smt-talk] Fwd: the impossibility of listening

[Giorgio Sanguinetti]

Actually, I cannot see anything new in vetoing opera analysis. I have been hearing things like that since the early Nineties, back in the era of the rampant new musicology. Perhaps time is ripe to go back to music. 

Giorgio Sanguinetti


Il giorno 01/nov/2012, alle ore 04:35, Isaac Malitz ha scritto:

> I don't find the authors' comments to be disturbing.
> In my own research, I am concerned with the analysis of music from the "experiential" side - I'm interested in how music stimulates listeners (from an aesthetic point of view)
> I find my kind of analysis to be fascinating, deep, enlightening in many ways. (It even sheds light on the analysis of musical scores)
> It has its own rigor, although that rigor is different from the rigor of conventional note-centric musical analysis.
> I have also found that my kind of analysis is not popular in the mainstream of musical academicians.
> 
> So, the author's approach to discussing opera (via experience rather than notes) seems a natural approach.
> I look forward to reading their book!
> 
> [The negative comments I have seen in this thread just seem to express resistance to something that I think is new and good]
> 
> 
> Isaac Malitz, Ph.D.
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> imalitz at rdic.com
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> Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker: "...we wanted to write a book without reference to musical scores."
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