Portmantonality and Babbitt’s Poetics ofDouble Entendre

IF 0.4 2区艺术学 0 MUSIC

Music Theory Online Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI:10.30535/mto.26.2.9

Joshua Banks Mailman

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This essay presents a theory of musical and verbal double entendre inspired by and applicable to the late-period music of Milton Babbi . Rather than assuming the appropriateness of any single method (which might tend toward singularity of meaning), a number of approaches are applied to three late works: primarily his Whirled Series (1987), and secondarily his Canonical Form (1983) and Gloss on ’Round Midnight (2001). These are interpreted through various kinds of analysis, not only serial, but also tonal (chordal and voice-leading), associational, pitch-permeational, and form-functional. Connections to Tin-Pan-Alley song lyrics, jazz improvisation, hermeneutics, and Gibsonian affordances are discussed in relation to these musical analyses. All this is done to infer and cultivate connections (represented as a conceptual integration networks) between Babbi ’s extratheoretic verbal expression and extra-dodecaphonic aspects of his music, connections that suggest an underlying poetics (a tacit motivational philosophy implicitly fueling his creativity) that provides pragmatic benefit to the artistic ambitions of diverse personal identities. DOI: 10.30535/mto.26.2.9 Volume 26, Number 2, June 2020 Copyright © 2020 Society for Music Theory

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调性与巴比特的双关语诗学

本文提出了一种受米尔顿·巴比后期音乐启发并适用于后期音乐的音乐和语言双关语理论。与其假设任何一种方法的适当性（这可能倾向于意义的单一性），不如将多种方法应用于三部后期作品：主要是他的《漩涡系列》（1987年），其次是他的《规范形式》（1983年）和《圆午夜的光泽》（2001年）。这些都是通过各种分析来解释的，不仅是连续的，还有音调（和弦和声部引导）、联想、音高渗透和形式功能。在这些音乐分析中，我们讨论了与锡潘巷歌词、爵士乐即兴创作、解释学和吉布森启示的联系。所有这些都是为了推断和培养巴比的理论外言语表达和他音乐的十二音外方面之间的联系（表现为概念整合网络），这些联系暗示了一种潜在的诗学（一种隐含地激发他的创造力的隐含动机哲学），为不同个人身份的艺术抱负提供了实用的好处。DOI:10.30535/mto.26.2.9第26卷第2期，2020年6月版权所有©2020音乐理论学会

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期刊介绍： Music Theory Online is a journal of criticism, commentary, research and scholarship in music theory, music analysis, and related disciplines. The refereed open-access electronic journal of the Society for Music Theory, MTO has been in continuous publication since 1993. New issues are published four times per year and include articles, reviews, commentaries, and analytical essays. In addition, MTO publishes a list of job opportunities and abstracts of recently completed dissertations.