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Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021Thinking/Feeling Musical Narrative

Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021: Thinking/Feeling Musical Narrative [This essay investigates the narrative potentiality of music from an experiential point of view. Since narrativity can be considered the act of creating an interplay of tension and resolution by exploiting suspense, curiosity, and surprise, and the expressivity of music is constituted by the interplay of tension and resolution that can be identified in the musical sounds, any music that can be considered expressive has a narrative potentiality as well. This narrative potentiality is experienced through the body. Listeners literally feel the interplay of tension and resolution in their bodies and are provoked to make sense of what they are experiencing, which may lead to a narrative understanding of the music. Therefore, the study of the narrative potential of music necessitates a focus on listening as an act in which the entire body is involved. Moreover, listening to and creating musical narratives can be considered as forms of sonic thinking. Listening to music as a narrative implies a focus on what music can do to the bodies and minds of listeners. It informs us about the affective capacity of music as well as about how our bodies act and react as a result of being exposed to music.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021Thinking/Feeling Musical Narrative

Part of the Current Research in Systematic Musicology Book Series (volume 9)
Editors: Khannanov, Ildar D.; Ruditsa, Roman
Meelberg, Vincent
Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021 — Sep 8, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-85885-8
Pages
29 –40
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-85886-5_3
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[This essay investigates the narrative potentiality of music from an experiential point of view. Since narrativity can be considered the act of creating an interplay of tension and resolution by exploiting suspense, curiosity, and surprise, and the expressivity of music is constituted by the interplay of tension and resolution that can be identified in the musical sounds, any music that can be considered expressive has a narrative potentiality as well. This narrative potentiality is experienced through the body. Listeners literally feel the interplay of tension and resolution in their bodies and are provoked to make sense of what they are experiencing, which may lead to a narrative understanding of the music. Therefore, the study of the narrative potential of music necessitates a focus on listening as an act in which the entire body is involved. Moreover, listening to and creating musical narratives can be considered as forms of sonic thinking. Listening to music as a narrative implies a focus on what music can do to the bodies and minds of listeners. It informs us about the affective capacity of music as well as about how our bodies act and react as a result of being exposed to music.]

Published: Sep 8, 2021

Keywords: Narrativity; Narrativization; Materiality of sound; Expression; Affect; Sonic thinking

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