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The Hidden Unity An Experimental View on Aesthetics and Semiotics of Music in the Czech Milieu.
Title:
The Hidden Unity An Experimental View on Aesthetics and Semiotics of Music in the Czech Milieu.
Author:
Doubravova, Jarmila.
ISBN:
9783653047943
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Publication Information:
Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (122 p.)
General Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Art as a function of life; 1 Preface; 2 Aesthetics, experiments and values; 3 Between cybernetics, aesthetics and semiotics; 4 "I/Other" oppositions in music, aesthetics and semiotics; 5 Interpersonal analysis in film music; 6 Janáček from an interpersonal viewpoint; 7 Postscript; 8 Notes and references; Appendix; 9 Summary of 'Dialog a imaginace' (1998): the starting point; 10 Special bibliography of works on interpersonal analysis by the author; 11 Literature; 12 Three sets of examples for the experiments; Subject index; Name index
Abstract:
This book is based on the results of about forty years of work with one type of analysis of musical communication. It offers an elucidation of the meaning of music as, in addition to other factors, a fictive action and refers to the context of the intrapersonal, interpersonal and social aspects of communication. It does so against the background of the nearly unknown century-long history of Czech experimental aesthetics. At the same time it provides insights into a field of the humanities in the totalitarian era by referring to the roots of the method in the context of semiotics, aesthetics an.
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