The Shadow Side of Musical Composition

A Study of Library Music in Portuguese Academic Circles

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ID21789205
AuthorsPAULA GOMES-RIBEIRO (0000-0002-0591-7024), André Malhado (0000-0002-1691-868X)
Year2024
Volume18
Issue2
Pages177-202
Publication date2024-12-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMusic, Sound, and the Moving Image (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1753-0768 • E-ISSN: 1753-0776
PublisherLiverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3828/msmi.2024.12
OpenAlexW4405202107
LanguageEN
References cited18

Despite being an international and powerful branch of the music and audiovisual industries, library music has limited symbolic capital. In conservatories, academies, and higher schools, the very idea of functional, commercially oriented music composition is consigned to oblivion, as if this practice did not exist. Music students in academic contexts are strongly encouraged to pursue what is classified as art, classical, or vanguard music. This article discusses the relationship between specific academic Portuguese music circles and the practice, teaching, and learning of library music. Our main question is: why, in the digital era, do the canons of music teaching still exclude practices such as library music? This research uses qualitative data collected from a group of respondents in the context of multi-method research. Respondents are music and musicology students, teachers and professionals in Portugal, all of whom have advanced practical and/or theoretical musical training

Art · Linguistics · Literature · Music education · Music history · Musical · Musical composition · Musicology · Portuguese · Sociology · Vanguard · Visual arts · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Diverse Music Education Insights · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Music · Psychology

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