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May 21, 2010 · The theory. Opposed critical viewpoints. One of the particular difficulties of studying the arts is that of tracing an artist's ideas in his works. We must first have a clear picture not only of the theory but also of the relationship between theory and practice.
Mar 28, 2007 · Music provided him with a powerful mechanism to reclaim and refunction in 'epic drama' the presentational mode of address, long a standard convention in most forms of music-theatre but discarded by modern drama after the 'fourth wall' had been dismantled by naturalism and realism.
- Kim H. Kowalke
- 2006
This chapter relates to an epistemological study of the ways in which operatic dramaturgy has been analyzed; more specifically, to a comparison of two schools of thought. According to one of these, the drama stems from the verbal text; according to the other, it originates in the musical elements.
Aug 27, 2008 · ‘Dramaturgy’ is one of those vogue words to which frequent use lends the appearance of being increasingly well understood, whereas the wear and tear to which it is subjected actually makes it ever harder to understand.
- Carl Dahlhaus
- 1989
nuance.70 Or even more succinctly: music conveys not unnuanced emotion but emotionless nuance. And that, I suggest, provides the key to a model of musical meaning that understands it as neither immanent nor arbitrary, but rather negotiated and emergent, just as Melrose sees dramatic meaning.
Aug 12, 2004 · Abstract: In this paper I address the issue of narrativity in music. The central question is the extent to which pure instrumental music in the classical tradition can or should be understood as narrative, that is, as narrating a story of some kind.
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First, a schema is a prototype —an idealized version of a common pattern. Second, a schema can be an exemplar —a single pattern that resembles the prototype. Third, a schema can be a theory —an explanation of a commonly occurring musical event. All of these ideas go into how we understand schemata.
