
Hermeneutics of Composition?
Reflections on musical creation
Gustavo Medina(Author)
Our Knowledge Publishing
Published on 8. February 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-620-8-63803-0 (ISBN)
Description
Creation, a condition inherent to the state of humanity, seems to resist every attempt by the court of reason to explain it. Activities such as musical composition - which, like other artistic creations, demand a great effort from the imagination along with a complex mastery of technical skills in order to produce their works - are extremely difficult to explain, to the point of provoking metaphysical and subjective attributions and origins. This book presents an epistemological reflection between the scientific and/or humanistic approaches, culminating in a case study that uses the growing phenomenon of youth orchestras and their artistic-social proposal as a compositional paradigm. Questions such as 1) how to face this creative challenge; 2) what would be the "source of inspiration" and 3) how would the context of relationships surrounding the activity work, serve as a guiding line to the thoughts that question its understanding. In the form of a case study and as a practical application, it ends with a description of the compositional process of three symphonic works for children's orchestras and the permanent search for a balance between technique and aesthetics.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
292 gr
ISBN-13
978-620-8-63803-0 (9786208638030)
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Person
Violinist, conductor and cultural manager Gustavo Medina was a founding member of El Sistema in Venezuela between 1975 and 2000. Since 2001, he has been working in Brazil as a professor at the Amazonas State University (UEA), a researcher in the Musicology and Cultural History group (CNPQ) and spalla of the Amazonas Baroque Orchestra.