Timbre composition: Ideology, metaphor and social process

Author: Waters, Simon¹

Source: Contemporary Music Review, Volume 10, Number 2, 1994 , pp. 129-134(6)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

Timbral music is frequently considered in phenomenological terms which purport to have objective or non-metaphoric status, and which suggest that music can be usefully regarded as a system of autonomous timbral objects. The author suggests that current debates concerning the interpretive status of the observer, and changes in the representational nature of language make such analyses problematic, drawing attention to the extent to which social processes construct the context for musical phenomena, and the languages in which they are described. Timbral listening is therefore considered as an intentional process.

Keywords: Phenomenology; metaphor; interdisciplinarity; interpretation; representation; intentionality; education

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/07494469400640361

Affiliations: 1: Music Department, Bath College of Higher Education, Bath, UK