Musica artificiosa : music as an art and profession
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Conference |
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| Description | The Latin noun "artificium", in its numerous meanings, refers to art, craft, skill, talent and technology. Its derived adjective, "artificiosus", accordingly bears a variety of meanings, ranging from skill, which is a condition of each craft, to the artificiality and unnaturalness inherent in rational compositional systems or technologies. This term is thus paradoxically capable of encompassing almost opposing significations in relation to music. With this in mind further possible topics suggest themselves for discussion at the colloquium: music as a craft, music as a vocation, music as art; aesthetic issues of "high" versus "low" music; questions of rationality and irrationality in musical structure; the relationship between music and technology; music in the age of machines and information technology / post-technological music; technologically generated / supported / mediated music; virtuosity as a product of industrial society / virtuosity versus sport, etc. |
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