古典主義交響曲における快楽と意味 Pleasure and Meaning in the Classical Symphony (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)

Lowe, Melanie

Indiana University Press（2007/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.／サイズ 52 figs.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780253348272
• DDC分類 784.2184

基本説明

Explores why public instrumental music of late-18th-century Europe has remained accessible,entertaining, and distinctly preasurable to such a variety of listeners for neraly 250 years.

Full Description

Classical music permeates contemporary life. Encountered in waiting rooms, movies, and hotel lobbies as much as in the concert hall, perennial orchestral favorites mingle with commercial jingles, video-game soundtracks, and the booming bass from a passing car to form the musical soundscape of our daily lives. In this provocative and ground-breaking study, Melanie Lowe explores why the public instrumental music of late-eighteenth-century Europe has remained accessible, entertaining, and distinctly pleasurable to a wide variety of listeners for over 200 years. By placing listeners at the center of interpretive activity, Pleasure and Meaning in the Classical Symphony offers an alternative to more traditional composer- and score-oriented approaches to meaning in the symphonies of Haydn and Mozart.
Drawing from the aesthetics of the Enlightenment, the politics of entertainment, and postmodern notions of pleasure, Lowe posits that the listener's pleasure stems from control over musical meaning. She then explores the widely varying meanings eighteenth-century listeners of different social classes may have constructed during their first and likely only hearing of a work. The methodologies she employs are as varied as her sources—from musical analysis to the imaginings of three hypothetical listeners.
Lowe also explores similarities between the position of the classical symphony in its own time and its position in contemporary American consumer culture. By considering the meanings the mainstream and largely middle-class American public may construct alongside those heard by today's more elite listeners, she reveals the great polysemic potential of this music within our current cultural marketplace. She suggests that we embrace "crosstalk" between performances of this music and its myriad uses in film, television, and other mediated contexts to recover the pleasure of listening to this repertory. In so doing, we surprisingly regain something of the classical symphony's historical ways of meaning.

Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. On Meanings of Musical Meaning
2. The Immediacy of Structural Understanding
3. Enlightening the Listening Subject
4. Entertaining Pleasure
5. Pleasure and Meaning in Haydn's Symphony in D Major, No. 93
6. Old Entertainments, New Pleasures: Meanings of Late-Eighteenth-Century Public Instrumental Music in Contemporary American Culture
Notes
Bibliography
Index