After Debussy
Music, Language, and the Margins of Philosophy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 9 April 2020
- ISBN 9780190066826
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages396 pages
- Size 163x239x25 mm
- Weight 919 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 50 musical examples, 12 illustrations, 2 photos 92
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Short description:
Focusing on the music of Debussy and its legacy in the century since his death, After Debussy offers a groundbreaking new perspective on twentieth-century music that foregrounds a sensory logic of sound over quasi-linguistic ideas of structure or meaning.
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Classical music shows a close relationship to language, and both musicology and philosophy have tended to approach music from that angle, exploring it in terms of expression, representation, and discourse. This book turns that idea on its head. Focusing on the music of Debussy and its legacy in the century since his death, After Debussy offers a groundbreaking new perspective on twentieth-century music that foregrounds a sensory logic of sound over quasi-linguistic ideas of structure or meaning. Author Julian Johnson argues that Debussy's music exemplifies this idea, influencing the music of successive composers who took up the mantle of emphasizing sound over syntax, sense over signification. In doing so, this music not only anticipates a central problem of contemporary thought--the gap between language and our embodied relation to the world--but also offers a solution.
With a readable narrative structure grounded in an impressive body of literature, After Debussy ranges widely across French music, demonstrating the impact of Debussy's music on composers from Fauré and Ravel to Dutilleux, Boulez, Grisey, Murail and Saariaho. It ranges similarly through a set of French writers and philosophers, from Mallarmé and Proust to Merleau-Ponty, Jankélévitch, Derrida, Lyotard and Nancy, and even draws from the visual arts to help embody key ideas. In accessibly tackling substantial ideas of both musicology and philosophy, this book not only presents bold new ways of understanding each discipline but also lays the groundwork for exciting new discourse between them.
Table of Contents:
Prologue: Music and Language
Music, Logos, Musicology
After Debussy
The margins of philosophy
Part I: Saying Nothing
1. Sirènes
Wordless voices
Shipwreck and abyss
Constellation
2. Mélisande and the silence of music
Framing nothing
Orchestral voices
Being mute
3. Mallarmé and the edge of language
Breathing
Fold upon fold
Empty words
Part II: Appearing
4. Coming to presence
Apparition
Present absence
Evanescence
5. Mirrors
Reflection
Threshold
Echo
6. Taking place
Listening to landscape
Le jardin clos: dwelling in music
Landscapes without figures
Part III: Touching
7. The art of touch
Debussy at the piano
Bathers
Towards an erotics of music
8. Writing the body
L'écriture musicale
Imaginary bodies
The philosopher's body
9. Thinking in sound
The play of the sensible
The grammar of dreams
Music as knowing
Epilogue: Being musical
After words
Before words
The margins of music
Bibliography
Guide to discussion of individual works
