The playing now: A philosophical investigation of present time in music
2015 (English)In: Nordiskt nätverk för musikpedagogisk forskning (NNMPF), 2015, Helsingfors: Sibelius Academy, 2015Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Introduction: Music, such as the duration of a musical piec e or length of a concert, can b e measured by metronomes and clocks in objective time ( chronos ). However, playing an instrument, singing, attending a concert, listening to a record or reading a musical score are musical activities also experienced as subjective time ( kairos) . Music has an intrinsic temporal dimension of experienced time , often including an intensification of the present moment, coexisting intertwined with its measurable dimensions. This makes music a fasc inating object for philosophical exploration. Musical practice em bodie s temporal phenomena like pulse, tempo, timing, ad lib, accelerando and fermata. The musical present can be viewed as a moment of sem antic fullness , a meaningful moment . Music can carry narrative, which is a related phenomenon, also containing intrinsic temporality. Furthermore, music can be improvised in the present moment. The tonal texture of music is experienced as a context, a coherency with an intrinsic temporality. This symposium is set to investigate how music can be experienced, philosophically speaking, in the present moment. In order to do this, we introduce a number of prominent Western philosophers who have taken an interest in the phenomenon of time by using the phenomenon o f music as a lens: Saint Augustine, Husserl, Bakhtin and Ricoeur.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Helsingfors: Sibelius Academy, 2015.
Keywords [en]
music time perception philosophy presence
National Category
Musicology Educational Sciences
Research subject
Musicology esp. Musical Education
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-42715OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-42715DiVA, id: diva2:788995
Conference
Nordiskt nätverk för musikpedagogisk forskning (NNMPF), Helsinki, Finland, 3-5 March, 2015
Projects
Symposium2015-02-172015-02-172018-06-26Bibliographically approved