Harmonic Space & Hegemonic Process
2017 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]
This text investigates the harmonic dimension of music and the various social, cultural and political consequences that arise through the act of tuning and tempering harmonic space. While no singular musical domain can exist divorced from the rest (i.e., duration, rhythm, dynamics, spatiality, etc.), in order to examine its afflictions and possible remedies, this text focuses only on the harmonic domain and the severity of its influence over listeners. This text questions the standardisation of twelve tone equal temperament, the implications it has inflicted culturally, the capital agents it may serve, and the possible insights just tuning systems and alternate temperaments may provide.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2017. , p. 21
Keywords [en]
Music, Just Intonation, Equal Temperament, Temperament, Harmonic Space, Tuning, Cultural Hegemony, Alienation, Architecture, Culture, Society, Modernity
National Category
Humanities and the Arts Music
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-2416OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kmh-2416DiVA, id: diva2:1102628
Presentation
2017-05-11, Kungliga Musikhögskolan, Valhallavägen 105, Stockholm, 10:00 (English)
Supervisors
Examiners
Projects
Cast of Mind2017-05-302017-05-292017-05-30Bibliographically approved