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Is There a Way to Invoke the Music Itself Without Embarrassing Ourselves?

Walls, Jacob (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

The interpretation of analytical claims about music presents a dilemma between positivism and fictionalism: is it that the structures imputed by the analysis are part of the reality of "the music itself" or are the structures ...
Young Man's Fancy: Enlightenment Taxonomy and the Feminization of the Free Musical Fantasia

Weinstein-Reiman, Michael (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

In this thesis, I explicate the linkage between gender and the phenomenology of musical extemporaneity in the Enlightenment. In so doing, I trace the development of the free musical fantasia from its improvisatory roots ...