Cahiers de Narratologie (Dec 2011)
La Narrativisation de la musique
Abstract
After describing the main features of the literary narrative and demonstrating its analogy with music, the author underlines the necessity not to conider a priori a musical production as a narrative. He analyzes the musical intonation contours as a form of proto-narration which he later explains from the standpoint of Daniel Stern’s developmental psychology. It is then emphasized that music should be considered as a proto-narrative and the authors proposes a criticism of the so-called narratological musicology.
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