Music and the Forms of Life

Music and the Forms of Life

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Kramer, Lawrence
University of California Press
EAN: 9780520389113
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Inventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. Music and the Forms of Life examines the link between such simulated life and music, which began in the era's scientific literature and extended into a series of famous musical works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Music invented auditory metaphors for the scientific elements of life (drive, pulse, sensibility, irritability, even metabolism), investigated the affinities and antagonisms between life and mechanism, and explored questions of whether and how mechanisms can come to life.

The resulting changes in the conceptions of both life and music had wide cultural resonance at the time, and those concepts continued to evolve long after. A critical part of that evolution was a nineteenth-century shift in focus from moving androids to the projection of life in motion, culminating in the invention of cinema. Weaving together cultural and musical practices, Lawrence Kramer traces these developments through a collection of case studies ranging from classical symphonies to modernist projections of waltzing specters by Mahler and Ravel to a novel linking Bach's Goldberg Variations to the genetic code.


The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the AMS 75 PAYS Fund of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
EAN 9780520389113
ISBN 0520389115
Typ produktu Mäkká väzba
Vydavateľ University of California Press
Dátum vydania 4. októbra 2022
Stránky 204
Jazyk English
Rozmery 229 x 152 x 15
Krajina United States
Čitatelia General
Autori Kramer, Lawrence
Ilustrácie 10 music examples, 1 figure
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