INTERPLAY: Music in
Interdisciplinary Dialogue
A book series published by
Pendragon Press
Series Editor: Siglind Bruhn
Brief description
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This series of monographs and essay collections aims
at investigating how music, as a mode of human expression, engages in
interdisciplinary dialogue with the other arts as well as with
philosophical and religious thought. Insofar as music can be called a
“language,” the question we wish to see addressed is how music
influences, or is suffused with, the other central ways in which humans
articulate their thoughts and experiences, their aesthetic needs, and
their quest towards transcendence.
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Studies are envisaged to focus on various segments of
an imagined double axis, where music interacts with, on the one axis,
its sister arts, and on the other, the various paths developed in the
search for spiritual truth. One of the assumed beams shows music as the
center of the primary art forms, interacting with the visual and the
verbal; beyond them, we also encourage studies that explore other art
forms as modes of expression that relate to music in a genuinely
interdisciplinary way. The other beam spans the area between the two
essential approaches through which humans aim to make sense of their
lives and this world: the rational and the spiritual; both terms are
understood in the wider humanistic sense and embrace related quests
regardless of the boundaries of today's academic disciplines.
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Editorial emphasis
We envisage including in (and inviting for)
this series studies that address the interdisciplinary field around
music in three basic ways.
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One, which could be tagged as “Music and
...,” investigates musical evolution through the lens of general
cultural phenomena, or vice versa. |
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Another, “Music on ...” for short, explores the ways
in which music may act as an intermediary and unique interpreter of
works created in other art forms. |
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The third, “Music in ...,” traces the ways in which
music informs other modes of human expression or experience |
(1) The first category will
comprise studies in cross-disciplinary comparison. These will
investigate the emergence of musical phenomena, understood in a larger
cultural and creative context and interpreted as expression of changes
in the general artistic, intellectual, or spiritual paradigm, and vice
versa.
(2) The second category will be
devoted to studies on music as a hermeneutically layered text bearing
out extra-musical subtexts, or on music as it reflects on other modes
of human expression; it will examine and interpret music about art,
music about literature, music bearing spiritual testimony, music
expressing thoughts, concepts, views, motivations, etc., and related
questions.
(3) The third category will
include studies that, exploring musical concepts in extra-musical
contexts, deal with musical “rhythms,” “sounds,” and other parameters
in representatives of the visual arts, or with musical structures,
genres, compositional procedures, etc. in works of literature; with
music used as a metaphor in philosophical, psychological, or literary
discourse, or with music used in extra-musical contexts as a vehicle of
access to transcendental reality.
INTERPLAY: MUSIC IN INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE
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