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| John Cage's "Europeras 1 & 2": The Musical Means of Revolution | ||
| 作者 | Kuhn, Laura Diane |
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| 出版日期 | 1992 |
| 出版者 | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.ucla.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Los Angeles, CA, US [洛杉磯, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | 博士 |
| 校院名稱 | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 系所名稱 | Music |
| 指導教授 | Hutchinson, William |
| 畢業年度 | 1992 |
| 附註項 | 445 |
| 關鍵詞 | Cage John; Music Aesthetics; Zen Buddhism |
| 摘要 | John Cage's Europeras 1 & 2 is a chance-determined, musico-dramatic stage collage in which each of its elements, drawn largely from Europe's operatic past, is given independence from the others, resulting in a work marked by a total absence of intended musical or dramatic interrelationships. Through its pervasive chance design, it is also a complex expression of Cage's aesthetic of nonintention, born of his early involvement with Zen Buddhist thought and later colored by the philosophical ideas of such 20th-century figures as R. Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan. As a poetic embodiment of Synergy, the work may be viewed within a context of hybrid artforms characterized by experimental juxtaposition--operaic in essence, but transformed, like the earlier Happening to which it relates, through the influences of collage. The intention behind Cage's nonintention may thus be said to encourage the senses toward a radical reappraisal of the nature of interrelationships between self, world, and representations. The method utilized, in keeping with the field of Systematic Musicology, is interdisciplinary, with particular reliance upon aesthetics, philosophy, sociology, and psychology. Through comparative and interpretive means, it explores how the philosophical informs the compositional. It also seeks to answer such questions as: What are the integrated and integrating effects of chance-coordinated art? Such questions are key, for Europeras 1 & 2 can only be viewed as a cluster of unanticipated behaviors between and among what are only relativistically secure symbolic structures. Europeras 1 & 2 emerges as an exemplary model of reconstructive Postmodernist practice, reflecting a newly-emerging paradigm with an ecological perspective on art. This gives rise to a new philosophical framework and aesthetic which, through such imperatives as social responsibility and ecological attunement, seeks to reconnect the artistic with the social. |
| 點閱次數 | 162 |
| 建檔日期 | 2000.01.29 |
| 更新日期 | 2016.05.09 |
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