Musik som handling. Verkanalys, interpretation och musikalisk gestaltning. Med ett studium av Anders Eliassons Quartetto d'Archi
Abstract
The aim of the dissertation is to illustrate the potential musical analysis has in the
development of artistic questions with regard to the interpretation and performance
of western art music. The analyses of the dissertation focus on Quartetto
d’Archi, by the Swedish composer Anders Eliasson, and discussions of music as
action, music as emotional expression, music as motion and music as mimesis are
based on the four movements of this string quartet. The methods which are used
are the very ones the project examines, namely the analysis of and the reflection
on the musical work. The author has attempted to gain a deeper knowledge of the
work and its possible interpretations by means of a comparative study of other
music and literature within the theory of music and within philosophical thinking.
The hermeneutics of Hans–Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur are significant
to the thesis. For example, the author claims that Ricoeur’s concept of interpretation,
in which understanding interacts with explanation, and where the interpreter
“appropriates” the text, could be applied to musical interpretation. References
in music, or in artworks in general, to phenomena, actions and concepts
may be explained through the concept of mimesis. Within the doctoral project,
the author has worked with chamber ensembles in the form of seminars at the
Academy of Music and Drama, the University of Gothenburg.
One of the central claims of the thesis is that the musical work opens up to the
possibilities of interpretation through its own way of being, in the way it expresses
itself in its structures. Questions of the significance of music must be posed to the
musical work itself, which answers through different categories of interpretation;
it is by means of these categories of interpretation that the meaning and significance
of a musical work can be interpreted. Four categories are presented: processual
interpretation, narrative interpretation, characterial interpretation and emotional
interpretation.
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
University
Göteborgs universitet. Konstnärliga fakulteten
University of Gothenburg. Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts
Institution
Academy of Music and Drama ; Högskolan för scen och musik
Disputation
Torsdagen den 4 juni 2009, kl 10.30, Ensemblesalen, Högskolan för scen och musik, Artisten, Fågelsången 1, Göteborg
Date of defence
2009-06-04
Anders.Tykesson@hsm.gu.se
Other description
Disputationen börjar med att Anders Tykesson håller ett interpretationsseminarium kl 10.30. Medverkar gör en musikensemble från Högskolan för scen och musik. Stenhammars stråkkvartett nr 2 är i fokus. Själva disputationsakten börjar kl 13.
Date
2009-05-25Author
Tykesson, Anders
Keywords
musical analysis
musical gestures
musical interpretation and performance
musical meaning
musical narrative
music theory
music as emotional expression
music as action
music as motion
music as mimesis
music and language
musical hermeneutics
musical phenomenology
musical semiotics
artistic research
Anders Eliasson
Hans-Heinrich Eggebrecht
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Robert Hatten
Ernst Kurth
Paul Ricoeur
Bo Wallner
Publication type
Doctoral thesis
ISBN
9789197775779
Series/Report no.
ArtMonitor
12
Language
swe
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