THE IMPORTANCE OF HUSSERL’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF INTERNAL TIME-CONSCIOUSNESS FOR MUSIC ANALYSIS AND COMPOSITION
Georg Boenn · University of Michigan Library Repository · 2009
Starting with Edmund Husserl’s seminal text[7] we would like to explore in this paper how musical perception is based on the conscious reduction of acoustic and spatiotemporal diversity into unity. In his lectures Husserl exemplifies his views with an analysis about the perception of a single sound and a sequence of sounds within a melody. They deliver an informative basis for us in order to rethink the perception of musical time and the perception of rhythms in particular. We demonstrate the impact of his phenomenology on music analysis and composition.