Dynamic Ontologies of 18th-Century Music: Music and/as Metamorphosis -- Critical Colloquy

TY - JOUR

T1 - Dynamic Ontologies of 18th-Century Music

T2 - Music and/as Metamorphosis -- Critical Colloquy

AU - Head, Matthew

PY - 2021/1/12

Y1 - 2021/1/12

N2 - Proposes a new view of the later eighteenth century, and music's place in it, in terms of dynamic processes: metamorphosis, alchemy, vitalism, animation, disguise, acting, and madness. Argues that the taxonomic mentality of the period structured and facilitated a fascination with volatility and radical transformation. Poses a challenge to musical scholarship in which the fixing of music in score and performance, style and genre, period and context, obscures music's protean muse.

AB - Proposes a new view of the later eighteenth century, and music's place in it, in terms of dynamic processes: metamorphosis, alchemy, vitalism, animation, disguise, acting, and madness. Argues that the taxonomic mentality of the period structured and facilitated a fascination with volatility and radical transformation. Poses a challenge to musical scholarship in which the fixing of music in score and performance, style and genre, period and context, obscures music's protean muse.

M3 - Article

SN - 0141-1896

VL - 40

JO - JOURNAL OF MUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH

JF - JOURNAL OF MUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH

ER -