Music 575, Seminar in Theory, Autumn 2001
Thursdays 1:30-3:20, Music room 212
John Rahn, Music 108, jrahn@u.washington.edu, 543-2291
A seminar that will explore these two “re-” words, both referrals.
Relations on the spectrum: identity, equivalence, similarity, family resemblance, treated both formally and philosophically in music and outside music.
Repetition (dependent on resemblance) as a basis for cognition and recognition.
Resentment as a necessary motion of emotion, its roots in crises of identity and resemblance (with resemblance’s obverse, difference), its effects in the world of action.
Readings will be developed according to the interests and abilities of the members of the seminar, but will include some Hegel, some contemporary American music theory, some relatively recent French “theory”. Analyses of musics by members of the seminar according to these lights.