Eidsheim Sensing Sound

Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7469-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Sign, Storage, Transmission

Through an analysis of four contemporary operas, Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions of how we think about sound, music, and listening by challenging common assumptions about sound, freeing it from a constraining set of fixed concepts and meanings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eidsheim, Nina Sun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations viii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1. Music's Material Dependency: What Underwater Opera Can Tell Us about Odysseus's Ears 27

2. The Acoustic Mediation of Voice, Self, and Others 58

3. Music as Action: Singing Happens before Sound 95

4. All Voice, All Ears: From the Figure of Sound to the Practice of Music 132

5. Music as a Vibrational Practice: Singing and Listening as Everything and Nothing 154

Notes 187

Bibliography 241

Index 261

Über Autor(innen)

Nina Sun Eidsheim is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.