Etymology
From the classical Greek mousikē.
What is Music?
The dimension of antagonism that is inherent in human relations.
What is the political? (Mouffe)
"To take part, in any capacity, in a musical performance, whether by performing, by listening, by rehearsing or practicing, by providing material for performance (what is called composing), or by dancing. ”
What is Musicking?
The imitation or transformation of reality.
What is mimesis?
Inquires about the nature of being, about what something is, about the question of existence itself.
What is ontology?
From the Greek Politeia ‘of, or pertaining to, the polis’
What is Politics?
Assemblage of relations between humans
What is the social?
“Unheard” music created by the revolutions of the planets, signifying the harmony of the universe
What is the Music of the Spheres or Musica mundana/universalis?
The ability of something transport us to higher, aesthetic realms
When something is defined in relation to (but most of the times against) something else.
What is relationality?
From the Latin revolvere
What is revolution?
"An order of bodies that defines the allocation of ways of doing, ways of being, and ways of saying, and sees that those bodies are assigned by name to a particular place and task"
What is the police order? (ranciere)
Description of music that had no overt literary, pictorial, or philosophical content.
What is absolute music?
When A has power over B to the extent that they can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do.
What is the first face of power?
Locates politics primarily in the state and its institutions
What is fundamentalism?
Vulgar Latin *potere
What is power? (ability to)
"The system of self evident facts of sense perception that simultaneously discloses the existence of something in common and the delimitations that define the respective parts and positions within it”
What is the distribution of the sensible? (Ranciere)
Sound-structures that exist first in the world of ideas.
What is music idealism?
To have power over someone by influencing, shaping or determining his very wants.
"Whatever shifts a body from the place assigned to it
or changes a place’s destination. It makes visible what had no business being seen, and makes heard a discourse where once there was only place for noise; it makes understood as discourse what was once only heard as noise.”
What is politics or political activity? (Ranciere)
Greek word for the "household"
What is Oikos?
Ensemble of practices, discourses and institutions which seek to establish a certain order and organize human coexistence
What is politics (Mouffe)?
Instrumental work in which the composer seeks to represent some kind of narrative, poetic, or emotional content
What is program music?
“To the extent that a person or group – consciously or unconsciously – creates or reinforces barriers to the public airing of policy conflicts, that person or group has power”
What is the second face of power?
Form of inquiry that advocates that music cannot be separated from its practice