Laurence Dreyfus
Biographic Data
| ID | 5688667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurence Dreyfus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurence |
| FAMILY NAME | Dreyfus |
| SIGNATURE | DREYFUS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A digital companion for musicological scholarship
Musicology has long suffered from the difficulties of making its work accessible, or even comprehensible to a wider audience. We introduce a digital companion to music scholarship – in this case, an exploration of Wagner's early use of leading motifs in the opera Lohengrin – providing different ways to explore, see and hear the materials that are discussed in musicological research. That research is described in text and a video, each of which is…
Beyond the Interpretation of Music
The idea of a musical performance as an “interpretation” cannot be dated before the 1840s, yet we use the term unthinkingly as a synonym for a privileged performance of any music from the past. Tracing a history and pre-history of the metaphor and its usage sheds light on the eclipse of more richly textured models of music-making from previous eras as well as on an esthetic predicament within contemporary “historicist” performance. The limitation…
Christopher Peacocke's 'The Perception of Music
Unlike the grasp of metaphor in natural language, there is in music a patent confusion of roles between the 'tenor' and 'vehicle' of a metaphor: the expressive content configures the metaphorical understanding of a musical moment as much as the experience of the musical moment shapes how we perceive expressive content. This observation prompts consideration of a model (different from Peacocke's) in which a spiralling reciprocity of invertible met…
Levi, Hermann
The Hermeneutics of Lament
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The Hermeneutics of Lament
Levi, Hermann
Christopher Peacocke's 'The Perception of Music
Unlike the grasp of metaphor in natural language, there is in music a patent confusion of roles between the 'tenor' and 'vehicle' of a metaphor: the expressive content configures the metaphorical understanding of a musical moment as much as the experience of the musical moment shapes how we perceive expressive content. This observation prompts consideration of a model (different from Peacocke's) in which a spiralling reciprocity of invertible met…
Beyond the Interpretation of Music
The idea of a musical performance as an “interpretation” cannot be dated before the 1840s, yet we use the term unthinkingly as a synonym for a privileged performance of any music from the past. Tracing a history and pre-history of the metaphor and its usage sheds light on the eclipse of more richly textured models of music-making from previous eras as well as on an esthetic predicament within contemporary “historicist” performance. The limitation…
A digital companion for musicological scholarship
Musicology has long suffered from the difficulties of making its work accessible, or even comprehensible to a wider audience. We introduce a digital companion to music scholarship – in this case, an exploration of Wagner's early use of leading motifs in the opera Lohengrin – providing different ways to explore, see and hear the materials that are discussed in musicological research. That research is described in text and a video, each of which is…
Art (3 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (3 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Computer Science (1 work) · German Colonialism and Identity Studies (1 work)