Music's Making: The Poetry of Music, the Music of Poetry

A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology. Contents Foreword Preface Practice, Practice, Practice In Prospect, In Retrospect Synopsis: Guide through the Labyrinth Closing Our Opening and Some Expressions of Gratitude Introduction: Remembering David Benjamin Lewin Part I 1. Music as Fiction 2. That Which Emerges out of Itself, That Which Is Created Seeing Through, Hearing Through: An Image from Kabbalah Excursus: High and Low 3. Moving toward Middle Voice Effacement of Subject-Object Oppositions in Philosophical Phenomenology Edmund Husserl Maurice Merleau-Ponty Don Ihde Excursus: A Personal Memoir and Musings on Body and Voice in Music Martin Heidegger’s Country Path Conversations 4. Liminal Space Personal Excursus 5. An Ethics of Intersubjectivity Emmanuel Levinas and Responsibility to the Other Human Being: הנני (hineni) 6. Character, Canon, and Poetic Influence The Poetics of Harold Bloom Personal Excursus Never Resting Mind Character: Persons and Personality Canon Personal Excursus Further Instances of Liminal Spaces in Bloom’s Writings The Reluctant Kabbalist’s Sonnet Poetics of Influence: Bloom’s Tropes of Limitation and Tropes of Representation Personal Excursus Metalepsis in Harold Bloom and John Hollander Musical Metalepsis Part II 7. Phrase as Musical Event, Wave as Musical Metaphor, and the Silence of Musical Space Musical Phrase, Musical Interval Wave as Musical Metaphor Brian Ferneyhough’s Figura The Silence of Caesura Emerging out of Silence, Fading into Silence 8. Metric, Ametric, Fractured Meter, and a Sea of Silence Metric Poetry, Metric Music Ametric, Fractured Metric Emergence from a Sea of Silence in Voice and Image Personal Excursus Black Fire, White Fire, Darkness and Light 9. Smooth Space, Striated Space: Nomadic Space, Agrarian Space Two Types of Musical Time-Space Fabric as Metaphor: Patchwork and Weaving; the Errant Thread Demonic Leaping over Boundaries Cluster as Singular-Plural 10. What Repetition Can Do: Time’s Arrows Repetition at the Outset: Say Again? Gilles Deleuze: Difference and Repetition Temporal Vectors Emergence, One More Time 11. The Horizontal and the Vertical: Worldly and Spiritual Work Songs: Physical Health and Mental Health Personal Excursus Grace Eros A Coda Notes Bibliography Index