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Narrativity In Postmodern Music: A Study Of Selected Works Of Alfred Schnittke, Karen K. Ching
Narrativity In Postmodern Music: A Study Of Selected Works Of Alfred Schnittke, Karen K. Ching
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The validity of music narratives has engendered much debate and research. This dissertation traces the development of narratology from its pre-structuralist phase to the post-structuralist phase where the discipline went through a narrative turn and blossomed into a broad-spectrum expansion that takes the form of interdisciplinary narratological studies such as music narratology. By adopting the viewpoints of postmodern philosophers and psychologists such as Mikhail M. Bakhtin, Ihab Hassan, Jean-François Lyotard, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Carl Jung, we develop a cognitive narratological theory for postmodern music that is veracious both epistemologically and philosophically.
We then analyze formally and contextually four concertos by …