Musica Practica

The Social Practice of Western Music From Gregorian Chant to Postmodernism

By: Michael Chanan

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Paperback | 17 October 1994 | Edition Number 1

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Musica Practica is a historical investigation into the social practice of Western music which advances an alternative approach to that of established musicology. Citing evidence from Barthes, Nietzsche, Bakhtin, Max Weber and Schoenberg, Michael Chanan explores the communal roots of the musical tradition and the effects of notation on creative and performing practice. He appraises the psychological wellsprings of music using the insights of linguistics, semiotics and psychoanalysis. Tracing the growth of musical printing and the creation of a market for the printed score, he examines the transformation of patronage with the demise of the ancien regime, and draws on little-known texts by Marx to analyze the formation of the musical economy in the nineteenth century.

Chanan sketches out an unwritten history of musical instruments as technology, from Tutankhamen's trumpets to the piano, the ancient Greek water organ to the digital synthesizer. The book concludes with reflections on the rise of modernism and the dissolution of the European tradition in a sea of postmodernism and "world music."

Musica Practica assumes no specialist knowledge of music beyond an ordinary familiarity with common terms and an average acquaintance with the music of different styles and periods. It is a fascinating commentary on the soundtrack of daily life in the metropolis of the late twentieth century.

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Acknowledgements
Scenario
Introduction	p. 1
Prologue: the Puzzle of Music	p. 3
The Shaping Forces of Music	p. 21
Musica Practica	p. 23
Music and Community	p. 23
Music according to Barthes	p. 27
The Quarrel between Lent and Carnival	p. 31
Music according to Bakhtin	p. 37
The Powers of Notation	p. 54
The Prehistory of Notation	p. 54
Rise of the Triad	p. 59
The Authority of the Score	p. 69
The Logic of Notation	p. 75
The Inner Fabric of Music	p. 81
Chomsky according to Leonard Bernstein	p. 81
Music and the Brain	p. 85
Symbol and Psyche	p. 89
The Grammar of Music	p. 95
The Musical Unconscious	p. 100
The Political Economy of Music	p. 109
Music Becomes a Commodity	p. 111
Print, Publisher, Composer	p. 111
Musica Practica in the Print Age	p. 123
Of the Origins of Concert Life	p. 132
Market Forces	p. 138
Growth of Concert Life	p. 138
Production and Consumption	p. 142
Copyright and Royalties	p. 147
Concert Halls, Audiences, Orchestras, Conductors	p. 156
Musical Engineering	p. 163
Instruments, Technology, Tuning	p. 165
Genotypes	p. 165
Prototypes	p. 170
Greek Music Theory	p. 175
From Fiddle to Concerto	p. 178
Discoveries of Acoustics	p. 184
The Voice as Instrument	p. 189
The Age of the Piano	p. 195
Invention of the Piano	p. 195
Business Expansion	p. 198
The Conquest of Equal Temperament	p. 210
Music in the Age of Electro-Acoustics	p. 219
The Birth of Modernism	p. 221
Modernization	p. 221
The Disintegration of Tonality	p. 229
The New Acoustics	p. 236
Noise Redefined	p. 241
The New Music according to Adorno	p. 244
Musica Practica Electronified	p. 250
Music and Media	p. 250
Electrophones	p. 253
From Reconstruction ...	p. 257
... to Deconstruction	p. 265
Implosion	p. 281
Index	p. 290
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