The Importance of Husserl's Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness for Music Analysis and Composition

Georg Boenn

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Abstract

Beginning with Edmund Husserl's phenomenology of internal time-consciousness we would like to explore in this paper how musical perception is based on the conscious reduction of acoustic and spatio-temporal diversity into unity. In his lectures Husserl exemplifies his views with an analysis about the perception of a single sound and a sequence of sounds within a melody. They deliver an informative basis for us in order to rethink the perception of musical time and the perception of rhythms in particular. We demonstrate the impact of his phenomenology on music analysis and composition.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationN/A
Publication statusPublished - 25 Aug 2008
Event International Computer Music Conference, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference - Queens University, Belfast
Duration: 1 Aug 20081 Aug 2008

Conference

Conference International Computer Music Conference, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference
Period1/08/081/08/08

Keywords

  • time perception in music
  • philosophy of music
  • computer music

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