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\uffe5English | ISBN: 022679122X | 2021 | 296 pages | PDF | 9 MB<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\uffe5English | ISBN: 022679122X | 2021 | 296 pages | PDF | 9 MB<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Daniel Albright was one of the preeminent scholars of musical and literary modernism, leaving behind a rich body of work before his untimely passing. In Music\u2019s Monisms, he shows how musical and literary phenomena alike can be fruitfully investigated through the lens of monism, a philosophical conviction that does away with the binary structures we use to make sense of reality. Albright shows that despite music\u2019s many binaries\u2014diatonic vs. chromatic, major vs. minor, tonal vs. atonal\u2014there is always a larger system at work that aims to reconcile tension and resolve conflict.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Daniel Albright investigates musical phenomena through the lens of monism, the philosophical belief that things that appear to be two are actually one.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Albright identifies a \u201cradical monism\u201d in the work of modernist poets such as T. S. Eliot and musical works by Wagner, Debussy, Britten, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky. Radical monism insists on the interchangeability, even the sameness, of the basic dichotomies that govern our thinking and modes of organizing the universe. Through a series of close readings of musical and literary works, Albright advances powerful philosophical arguments that not only shed light on these specific figures but also on aesthetic experience in general. is a revelatory work by one of modernist studies\u2019 most distinguished figures.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n