Musical Listening and the Fine Art of Engagement

Autor: Charles D. Morrison
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: The British Journal of Aesthetics. 47:401-415
ISSN: 1468-2842
0007-0904
DOI: 10.1093/aesthj/aym023
Popis: When we listen to music, what do we listen to and for? How do we listen? How well do we listen and how do we listen well? This paper suggests that ‘modes of engagement’ are the active, operational means by which listeners experience music and that listening experiences more often than not involve multiple interacting modes rather than a fixed mode throughout. Modes of engagement may be voluntarily employed or involuntarily adopted; they may be technical or descriptive; they may involve explicitly musical details and relationships, or they may seem more peripheral to the music. In the end, though, successive, simultaneous, and interacting modes of engagement are said to define unique and meaningful trajectories through music as heard.
Databáze: OpenAIRE