Writing musicological studies always entails writing about the
history of musicology itself. Our Festschrift aims in the first place to
develop knowledge on a wide range of musical topics and to stimulate
scientific discourse. It is also meant as a contribution to the tradition of
honouring prominent academics by means of a celebratory publication
– a long-established practice in German-speaking countries, and one
which has become widespread internationally. Thus, it is our intention
to dedicate the present volume to a scholar, lecturer and intellectual
whose lifetime’s work has had a major impact on the consolidation of
modern musicology at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa: Mário Vieira de Carvalho.
A Festschrift usually reflects the dedicatee’s scholarly fields and
research interests. Our Essays on Music, Meaning and Society
encompass some core issues in areas of research close to Mário Vieira de
Carvalho’s own. His work has consistently explored the relations
between musical phenomena and their social environment. For Mário
Vieira de Carvalho music and society cannot be viewed as separate
realms: they belong together and interact in multiple ways. It follows
from this that musicology must devise ever more refined approaches to
the interrelation of social and musical processes and practices. The
chapter Social Existence Determines Human Consciousness:
Interdependencies between Music, Society, and Technology addresses
precisely those questions.
The implications of Mário Vieira de Carvalho’s work for music
analysis, criticism and aesthetics are manifold. Differentiations in
musical reception or musical behaviour respond to differentiations in
musical structure, which in turn reflect the musical intentions of the
composer – a view developed by Mário Vieira de Carvalho since the
time of his encounter with Christian Kaden as a former doctoral
supervisor, and brought to fruition in his well-known studies on the
music of Fernando Lopes-Graça, among other composers. Interrelations
between composition, performance and reception are outlined in our
chapters Analysing Music and Musicians: Text – Performance – Context
and The Meaning of Meaning: Music, Discourse, and Silence.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:21038 |
| Date | 27 April 2018 |
| Creators | Stöck, Gilbert, Ferreira de Castro, Paulo, Stöck, Katrin |
| Contributors | Vieira de Carvalho, Mário, Universität Leipzig |
| Publisher | Gudrun Schröder |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:book, info:eu-repo/semantics/book, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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