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  • 2 - Keys to the Ineffable in Fauré

  • Edited by Carlo Caballero, University of Colorado Boulder, Stephen Rumph, University of Washington
  • Book:
    Fauré Studies
    Published online:
    17 April 2021
    Print publication:
    22 April 2021, pp 35-58

  • Summary

    Contrary to received wisdom, music has always been connected with language, however tenuously, on at least two levels. First, despite theoretically standing apart from our two principal systems of representation, words and images, music has persistently been linked throughout our history and culture with something beyond itself. Each age has constructed a system of relationships, metaphors, or analogies through which musical scores are conceived and heard – simple examples include a musical “phrase,” “high” and “low” pitches, “soft” and “powerful” tones.1 Second, music has constantly been connected with verbal discourse, whose importance increased throughout the nineteenth century (if only through the proliferation of the press and the growth of writing about music): musical works are not understood and appreciated as unmediated objects, but are filtered through discourses that precede, accompany, and succeed them. Aesthetic theories, critical reception, and historical studies, together with informal conversation, enter into the life of a musical work. It is this second level that will concern us.