Entry Details
| Group: | Library – Mediatype: article |
| Author: | |
| Title: | Structural Analysis in Interdiciplinary Arts Courses |
| Journal: | College Music Symposium |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Pages: | 102-121 |
| Publishing date: | 1974 |
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| Call number: | Magazin : Levy, Edward - Analysis |
| ISSN: | 0069-5696Methods for analyzing music applied to the other arts can indicate substantive bases for interdisciplinary studies. Tangential concerns about external references should only follow from perception of a work's internal content: the shaping in the medium of selected material. Music, however, is non-referential, and combining contextual with Heinrich Schenker's analytic methods permits effective analyses of precisely music's internal content, e.g., the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's sonata op. 2, no. 1 and Arnold Schoenberg's Kleine Klavierstuck op. 10, no. 1. Similarly, the composition of paintings and poems can be medium-specifically analyzed, e.g., Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini wedding, Amedeo Modigliani's Nude (1917), Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Break, break, break, and Dylan Thomas's A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London. These analyses suggest aesthetic criteria and relationships among styles and media, and show how artistic processes may be educatively demonstrated. (Author/RILM) |