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The dialectical structure of W. A. Mozart's "Die Zauberfloete": A phenomenological analysis. (Volumes I and II)
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Phenomenologists describe how they come to know about objects that appear to consciousness. Of the many artistic genres that have been investigated using the phenomenological method, however, opera is conspicuously absent. Adapting an... From Ingarden, I adopted the three phases of aesthetic inquiry: preaesthetic, aesthetic, and postaesthetic. The analytic preaesthetic investigation produced an "opera-as-heard" libretto edition that typographically reflects the effects... The postaesthetic analysis examines previous interpretations--including libretto translations and editions, literary and visual adaptations, previous exegeses, and cinematic settings--of the work. Having established the logical... When experienced as Mozart and Schikaneder wrote it, Die Zauberflote offers one of the most profound experiences to be had in an opera. Not simply a Enlightenment ritual in symmetry, it is a process that begins with a precariously...
The dissertation gives an ontological analysis of music considered as a cultural phenomenon. The author adapts Martin Heidegger's hermeneutical method of phenomenological analysis and, in part, his analysis of human existence, to ground... Chapter One provides an introduction into the historically controversial questions in musical aesthetics, along with an outline of the method to be used in the text. Chapter Two gives an ontic analysis of music as commonly understood.... In the final chapter, the author illustrates how his analysis of the musical phenomenon expands upon the aesthetic theory Heidegger presents in his now classic paper, Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes.
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