Czy rozumienie muzyki zależy od świadomego śledzenia struktur formalnych utworu? Jerrold Levinson i Peter Kivy wobec problemu doświadczenia muzycznego

• Authors: Chęćka-Gotkowicz Anna

Title variants

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Does musical understanding depend upon refl ective awareness of large-scale musical structure? Jerrold Levinson versus Peter Kivy and the problem of musical experience

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Does musical understanding depend upon refl ective awareness of large-scale musical structure? Jerrold Levinson, in his brilliant book Music in the Moment, rejects this notion and defends the view that musical comprehension is fundamentally a matter of individual momentary impressions. In other words, understanding music is a matter of moment-by-moment absorption of individual bits of music. Levinson calls this perspective ‘concatenationism’. This perspective helps to defend music lovers who are passionate and attentive, yet structurally unconcerned. On the other hand, Peter Kivy, in his distinctively elegant style, defends the structuralist position, as it contributes a substantial part of the satisfaction derived from classical music. My aim in this article is to present the main strands of that passionate controversy between Kivy and Levinson.

Keywords

EN

Kivy Peter; Levinson Jerrold; muzyka; rozumienie; słuchanie

• Publisher: Akademia Muzyczna im. Stanisława Moniuszki w Gdańsku, Wydział Dyrygentury, Kompozycji i Teorii Muzyki
• Journal: Aspekty Muzyki
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 2
• Pages: 11-23

Contributors

author

Chęćka-Gotkowicz Anna

• Uniwersytet Gdański, Wydział Nauk Społecznych

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