Notes for Sound

Dalgleish, Jodie Sharon

Notes for Sound

aut.embargo	No	en
aut.thirdpc.contains	No
aut.thirdpc.permission	No
aut.thirdpc.removed	No
dc.contributor.advisor	Johnson, Mike
dc.contributor.author	Dalgleish, Jodie Sharon
dc.date.accessioned	2011-09-12T21:22:13Z
dc.date.available	2011-09-12T21:22:13Z
dc.date.copyright	2011
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.date.updated	2011-07-18T04:32:20Z
dc.description.abstract	The novel Notes for Sound is a literary work of musical fiction, or ‘literary music,’ that explores the material and mythological being of music as a phenomenon of sound. Drawing on the proven tendency for listeners to identify ‘person-like’ qualities in the note-play and expressive events of music, as well as the mythological status often given to sound, Notes is dedicated to searching for music’s real-life existence and affective power. In particular, a Beethoven piano score has its own independent identity while it follows and affects the lives of a small cast of human characters and shapes the novel. Concepts of resonance, and the loss and desire inherent in the very nature of sound, are of key importance in realising a story in which Cara, Toni and Quinn make their own music together because of yet despite the failings and loss of important familial relationships. Depending on the loss of, and desire for, sound and its music, Notes enables the reader’s phenomenological experience of music in the mind’s ear, or ‘auditory imagination.’ A kind of composer, the reader is involved in a personal form of music making and performance: a musica practica specific to the novel. As a novel of ideas, Notes for Sound explores the life-making nature and potential of sound as a product of its resonance. Fundamentally concerned with the internal fusion of listening and imagination, it brings the normally disparate realms of art music and electroacoustic music together in a philosophical field concerned with the sound in music and the music in sound. In particular, it creates a ‘resonance chamber of history’ in which the music of Beethoven, Henry Cowell, Cara and Quinn can be related in a world of sound centred on the special resonance of the piano. Ultimately, music is given its own particular life: a life that is both familiar and strange.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10292/2053
dc.language.iso	en	en_NZ
dc.publisher	Auckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrights	OpenAccess
dc.subject	Music
dc.subject	Sound
dc.subject	Literature
dc.subject	"Auditory imagination"
dc.subject	Beethoven
dc.subject	"Musica practica"
dc.subject	Piano
dc.subject	Concerto
dc.subject	"Literary music"
dc.subject	"Musical fiction"
dc.subject	Electroacoustic
dc.subject	"Philosophical fiction"
dc.subject	"Novel of ideas"
dc.title	Notes for Sound
dc.type	Thesis
thesis.degree.grantor	Auckland University of Technology
thesis.degree.level	Masters Theses
thesis.degree.name	Master of Creative Writing