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Line and Colour: Instrumental (Ir)rationality in Adorno's Musicology.
- Source :
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Contemporary Music Review . 2010, Vol. 29 Issue 4, p359-365. 7p. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- This essay subjects Adorno's historical dialectic of musical material, as it pertains to instrumentation, to Bataille's economic reading of dialectics (and latterly, to Derrida's reading of Bataille). There is a certain excess, an accumulation of waste, that cannot be jettisoned in Adorno's musicology; the problems that arise pertain directly to a musical work's ontological status as transcendental 'thing in itself', score, and/or performance. The implications of this reading point to a radical discontinuity between score and performance that cannot easily be reconciled by recourse to some fictive notion of the 'work' itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *ESSAYS
*MUSICOLOGY
*DIALECTIC
*INSTRUMENTAL music
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07494467
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Contemporary Music Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 62596523
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2010.587313