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!!!!1939 __ Music as an Art-Science * Edgard (Edgar) Varèse (1883-1965) * ''Original excerpt :'' « At different times and in different places music has been considered either as an Art or as a Science. In reality music partakes of both. H. Wronsky and Camille Durutte ''(H. Wronsky (1778-1853), also known as Joseph Marie Wronsky, was a Polish philosopher and mathematician, known for his system of Messianism. Camille Durutte (1803-1881), in his “Technique Harmonique” (1876), a treatise on "musical mathematics," quoted extensively from the writings of Wronsky)'', in their treatise on harmony in the middle of the last century, were obliged to coin new words when they assigned music its place as an "Art-Science," and defined it as "the corporealization of the intelligence that is in sounds." Most people rather think of music solely as an art. But when you listen to music do you ever stop to realize that you are being subjected to a physical phenomenon ? ^[...^] Let us look at music as it is more popularly considered -as an Art- and inquire: what is composition ? Brahms has said that composition is the organizing of disparate elements. But what is the situation of the would-be creator today, shaken by the powerful impulses and rhythms of this age ? How is he to accomplish this "organizing" in order to express himself and his epoch ? Where is he to find those "disparate elements" ? ^[...^] Preceding ages show us that changes in art occur because societies and artists have new needs. New aspirations emanate from every epoch. The artist, being always of his own time, is influenced by it and, in turn, is an influence. ^[...^] Yet science is even now equipped to give them everything they may require. Personally, for my conceptions, I need an entirely new medium of expression: a sound-producing machine (not a sound-reproducing one). Today it is possible to build such a machine with only a certain amount of added research. ^[...^] ''(From a lecture given at the University of Southern California, 1939)'' * ''Sources :'' {small}E. Varèse. (1939). ''Music as an Art-Science''. In Bennington college Alamnae Quaterly, vol. VII, n°I, 1955 ; J.-C. Risset. (2004). ''The liberation of sound, art-science and the digital domain: contacts with Edgard Varèse''. In ‘Contemporary Music Review’, Volume 23, Issue 2 June 2004 , pages 27-54.{/small} {br}{br}{br}{br}{br}{br}{br}{br} ---- {plugin:FOOT_NOTES} {br}{br}
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