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The Musical Narrativity in Contemporary Music as an Analytical Strategy. Introduction. “Narrativity,” an area of contemporary literary theory, has attracted scholarly attention and evoked lively arguments in multiple disciplines.
This article will take a closer look at some of the functions of narrative media music, music used for narrative purposes in film, television and computer games etc – and discuss how meaning is achieved in interplay with the visuals.
Narrative Engagement (NE) with music was assessed for Arkansas, Dimen, and Michigan participants using both a direct question about whether or not participants imagined a story while listening...
This overview of the development of narrative theory in music charts the course of three “waves” of narratological engagement with music: 1) the scholars of the 1980s, such as Anthony Newcomb, Susan McClary, and Patrick McCreless, whose work focused on narrative in instrumental tonal music; 2) a period of critical reappraisal of musical ...
Maus, Music as Narrative 7 Instrumental music consists of a series of events, and the easiest anthropomorphism is to treat those events as behavior, as actions.11 Once one begins thinking of musical sounds as actions, rather than just events, the notion of plot or narrative is close at hand. Stories are primarily about human actions, and the story
The premise of this book is that all music has a potential to be narrative. Admittedly, there are gradations to the aptness of narrative as a framework for understanding music.
SESSION 1: NARRATIVITY OF MUSIC IN FILM, GAMES, AND MUSICAL IGNATIUS TAN (NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY) Melody of Mistrust of Mutterings: Silent Voice and Narrative Musicality in the Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos When one thinks of the cinematic oeuvre of acclaimed Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, one of
