Music's Monisms: Disarticulating Modernism Albright Daniel
Music's Monisms: Disarticulating Modernism Albright Daniel Daniel Albright investigates musical phenomena through the lens of monism, the philosophical belief that things that appear to be two are…
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Music's Monisms: Disarticulating Modernism Albright Daniel
Daniel Albright investigates musical phenomena through the lens of monism, the philosophical belief that things that appear to be two are actually one.Daniel Albright was one of the preeminent scholars of musical and literary modernism, leaving behind a rich body of work before his untimely passing. Albright shows that despite music's many binaries--diatonic vs. In Music's Monisms, he shows how musical and literary phenomena alike can be fruitfully investigated through the lens of monism, a philosophical conviction that does away with the binary structures we use to make sense of reality.
minor, tonal vs. chromatic, major vs. atonal--there is always a larger system at work that aims to reconcile tension and resolve conflict.Albright identifies a "radical monism" in the work of modernist poets such as T. S.
Eliot and musical works by Wagner, Debussy, Britten,