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TILTING AT WINDMILLS: THE SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF IN THREE TONE POEMS OF RICHARD STRAUSS

BARRY, CHRISTOPHER M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1122672809

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2005, M.M., University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music : Theory.
Reactions to representational artworks can include emotional exhibitions such as tears, smiles, or cowering fear. Describing the apparent contradiction between seemingly genuine reactions to clearly unreal artworks, Coleridge appealed for a “willful suspension of disbelief,” a setting-aside of reservations about the reality of represented entities. The research of Holland, Radford, Currie, and Pavel (among others) reveals the corollary concept of hierarchical belief dossiers, which reflect the primacy of fictional information over that of the real world. Using a musical representational apparatus based on the work of Kivy, Walton, Wollheim, and Goodman (among others), the suspension of disbelief can be applied to instrumental programmatic music. Analyses of Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Eine Alpensinfonie, and Don Quixote reveal the intricacy of musical worldmaking and its resultant suspensions of disbelief. Techniques of character-differentiation, event-progression, and description are evident, as are disruptive examples of musical suspension-breaking.
Dr. Robert Zierolf (Advisor)
176 p.
Music; Philosophy
suspension of disbelief; Strauss, Richard; music, philosophy of

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  • BARRY, C. M. (2005). TILTING AT WINDMILLS: THE SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF IN THREE TONE POEMS OF RICHARD STRAUSS [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1122672809

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • BARRY, CHRISTOPHER. TILTING AT WINDMILLS: THE SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF IN THREE TONE POEMS OF RICHARD STRAUSS. 2005. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1122672809.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • BARRY, CHRISTOPHER. "TILTING AT WINDMILLS: THE SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF IN THREE TONE POEMS OF RICHARD STRAUSS." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1122672809

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