Description
Book SynopsisThis book collects together Adornos manifold implications for musical interpretation. His reflections lead to a fundamental study of the nature of notation and musical sense. However, it is the quality of uncertainty in his reflections that indicates the scope of the discourse and its continuing relevance to musical thought today.
Trade Review"
Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction addresses the dialectical relation between the musical score (inscription) and its realized sound (performance), the two elements meeting in an act of interpretation, so as to produce what Adorno several times calls the x-ray image of the work, the subcutaneous depth that lies beyond surface manifestation. Adorno's concern is how music means, better how it is made meaningful. The book is a fragment, a set of extensive notes; what survives - more than 200 print pages - is nonetheless very considerable. Adorno's comments and commentaries, invariably aphoristic, are filled with insight and, into the bargain, are richly provocative and commonly provoking."
Richard Leppert, University of Minnesota
Table of ContentsEditor's Foreword.
Translator's Introduction.
Notes I.
Ad Dorian.
On Richard Wagner's 'Uber das Dirigieren'.
Concerning the Older Material.
AdAancient Musical Notation.
Notes Taken After the Darmstadt Lecture.
Notes II.
Draft.
Structural Keywords for chapters 2, 4 and 5 of the Draft.
Material for the Reproduction Theory.
Two Schemata.
Keywords for the 1954 Darmstadt Seminar.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index of Names.
