The Antinomy of Musical Form vs. Work: Integralism vs. Formalism
Ханнанов Ильдар Дамирович · 2023
This chapter presents the history of ideas rather than the play-by-play description of events in chronological order. There will be the elements of historical narrative—the subject matter belongs to history and is inscribed into historical process—yet the primary syntax of the book is based on the unfolding line of reasoning that forms a sequence of concepts and categories. Descartes assumes that it is possible to reassemble the object and to understand it as a whole. There is a hefty corpus of literature in music theory dedicated to methods of music analysis. Analysis of music is based upon one of two methods: that which gathers all the aspects of a musical artifact and that which focuses only on its essence (its attribute) while casting away the accidents. The history of music theory is longer than the events of common practice; it must include the era of chant.