DISCOURSE and MUSIC
This course explores the relationship between musical
"discourse" and verbal / kinesic discourse (including dance), seeking
to extract rules that are common to both, to place both in a common performance
frame, and to describe the ways in which music on occasion attempts to emulate
spoken communication and speech on occasion attempts to emulate music, as well
as the ways that people speak about music in their verbal discourse, or
"play" speech musically.
Crucial to the perspective taken here is the notion of performance,
corollaries to which are interpretation in context and culture construction
through performance.
10/13/2004