BOOK Ë Musical Elaborations Ë Edward W. Said
Ating the music criticism of Adorno musical Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural studies Musical Elaborations examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music Incorporating the music criticism of Adorno musica
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Musical ElaborationsL ideas from literary works by Proust and criticism by Benjamin and de Man into his work noted critic Edward W Said discusses performers such as Glenn Gould Arturo Toscanini and Alfred Brendel and such composers as Beethoven Wagner and Strauss
FREE TEXT Á READER Musical ElaborationsÜ EDWARD W SAID Musical ElaborationsEdward Said’s insights on music are always interesting but sometimes a little fuzzy with that tendency of academics to produce if not a word salad at least a sentence salad This is a collection of three lectures given at the University of California Irvine the Wellek Library Lectures and as with most of Said’s music writings they are interdisciplinary dipping into the ideas of Theodor Adorno Paul de Man Thomas Mann Michel Foucault Richard Poirier Proust and others In the first lecture Performance as an Extreme Occasion he laments the distance between the amateur and the professional musician; up until some point in the early 20th century lots of people played instruments and played music at home at a high level for their own enjoyment but few people do so today and thus audiences at classical music concerts feel alienated from the absurd levels of proficiency and spectacle they see and hear onstage When he describes Maurizio Pollini's rendition
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FREE TEXT Á READER Musical ElaborationsÜ EDWARD W SAID Musical ElaborationsA poignant attempt by this respected post colonialliterary and music critic to elicit a sense of Proustian emotional intimacy from within music as performer and analyst; the aporia is he uses intellectual means to try to enter this ineffable emotional primarily realm of music; never uite capturing its transcendence; but labouring through useful in other contexts Adorno esue critical theory terms like elaborationsMuch perceptive on how music as public performance has itself become yet another capitalist commodity selling concert tickets the highly paid virtuoso etc etc a sort of reflection of the economic infrastructure of capital He interestingly counterpoints the idiosyncratic Glen Gould with this who made RECORDINGS not performance his world There is only one mention of another significant related hegemony the canon of the greats many of whom deserve that place; but some of whose placement in the high canon is a manifestation of a Foucauldian power structure he mentions Humm
FREE TEXT Á READER Musical ElaborationsÜ EDWARD W SAID Musical ElaborationsI like the way Said thinks I like the way he writes I mean this a really good book if you know some Adorno and uite a lot of classical music But for people trying to get into this kind of music I find the language he uses uite sterile Either he just enters the realm of affirmation by the means of poetic language which in the end doesn't explain much but his subjective point of view or he enters the realm of theoretical musical concepts which for non musicians is uite hard to understand I mean I repeat myself it's a really good book if you already have much knowledge But what I'm still looking for is someone who can write about music in just a way everyone can understand it without being superficial
FREE TEXT Á READER Musical ElaborationsÜ EDWARD W SAID Musical ElaborationsThis is a neat little book if I didn't find it as satisfying as some of the musical essays in On Late Style or in Exile I admire Said's musical mind while expecting his thought to be densely constructed and rather hard to understand