Imitation and Expression. Inauthenticity in music according to Giacinto Scelsi
This article focuses on the consequences of a little-known work by Giacinto Scelsi, Rotativa (1930), for the concepts of imitation and expression in music. Critical of the mechanization of art peculiar to the Futurism of his time, the Italian composer allows us to think, against the pseudo-photograp...
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| description | This article focuses on the consequences of a little-known work by Giacinto Scelsi, Rotativa (1930), for the concepts of imitation and expression in music. Critical of the mechanization of art peculiar to the Futurism of his time, the Italian composer allows us to think, against the pseudo-photographic reproduction of objects by sound forms, the limits of musical imitation by revealing, from the historicity of his own piece, the inauthenticity of a certain modernism.
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| spelling | doaj.art-45f3d0490a7a403aba73111bf08c88d42024-02-09T11:17:19ZengFirenze University PressAisthesis2035-84662024-02-0116210.36253/Aisthesis-14296Imitation and Expression. Inauthenticity in music according to Giacinto ScelsiQuentin Gailhac0Sorbonne Université, EA 3552 Centre Victor BaschThis article focuses on the consequences of a little-known work by Giacinto Scelsi, Rotativa (1930), for the concepts of imitation and expression in music. Critical of the mechanization of art peculiar to the Futurism of his time, the Italian composer allows us to think, against the pseudo-photographic reproduction of objects by sound forms, the limits of musical imitation by revealing, from the historicity of his own piece, the inauthenticity of a certain modernism. https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/14296 imitationexpressionmusical futurismkitsch modernismScelsi |
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| title | Imitation and Expression. Inauthenticity in music according to Giacinto Scelsi |
| title_full | Imitation and Expression. Inauthenticity in music according to Giacinto Scelsi |
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| title_short | Imitation and Expression. Inauthenticity in music according to Giacinto Scelsi |
| title_sort | imitation and expression inauthenticity in music according to giacinto scelsi |
| topic | imitation expression musical futurism kitsch modernism Scelsi |
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