โ Scribed by Michael Cherlin
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Practice, Practice, Practice
In Prospect, In Retrospect
Synopsis: Guide through the Labyrinth
Closing Our Opening and Some Expressions of Gratitude
Introduction: Remembering David Benjamin Lewin
Part I
1. Music as Fiction
2. That Which Emerges out of Itself, That Which Is Created
Seeing Through, Hearing Through: An Image from Kabbalah
Excursus: High and Low
3. Moving toward Middle Voice
Effacement of Subject-Object Oppositions in Philosophical Phenomenology
Edmund Husserl
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Don Ihde
Excursus: A Personal Memoir and Musings on Body and Voice in Music
Martin Heideggerโs Country Path Conversations
4. Liminal Space
Personal Excursus
5. An Ethics of Intersubjectivity
Emmanuel Levinas and Responsibility to the Other Human Being: ืื ื ื (hineni)
6. Character, Canon, and Poetic Influence
The Poetics of Harold Bloom
Personal Excursus
Never Resting Mind
Character: Persons and Personality
Canon
Personal Excursus
Further Instances of Liminal Spaces in Bloomโs Writings
The Reluctant Kabbalistโs Sonnet
Poetics of Influence: Bloomโs Tropes of Limitation and Tropes of Representation
Personal Excursus
Metalepsis in Harold Bloom and John Hollander
Musical Metalepsis
Part II
7. Phrase as Musical Event, Wave as Musical Metaphor, and the Silence of Musical Space
Musical Phrase, Musical Interval
Wave as Musical Metaphor
Brian Ferneyhoughโs Figura
The Silence of Caesura
Emerging out of Silence, Fading into Silence
8. Metric, Ametric, Fractured Meter, and a Sea of Silence
Metric Poetry, Metric Music
Ametric, Fractured Metric
Emergence from a Sea of Silence in Voice and Image
Personal Excursus
Black Fire, White Fire, Darkness and Light
9. Smooth Space, Striated Space: Nomadic Space, Agrarian Space
Two Types of Musical Time-Space
Fabric as Metaphor: Patchwork and Weaving; the Errant Thread
Demonic Leaping over Boundaries
Cluster as Singular-Plural
10. What Repetition Can Do: Timeโs Arrows
Repetition at the Outset: Say Again?
Gilles Deleuze: Difference and Repetition
Temporal Vectors
Emergence, One More Time
11. The Horizontal and the Vertical: Worldly and Spiritual
Work Songs: Physical Health and Mental Health
Personal Excursus
Grace
Eros
A Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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