Musical Transcription and Remix - Applying Stephen Davies’ Aesthetics of Music to Contemporary Electronic Music Cover Image

Glazbena transkripcija i remiks - Primjena estetike glazbe Stephena Daviesa na promišljanje suvremene elektroničke glazbe
Musical Transcription and Remix - Applying Stephen Davies’ Aesthetics of Music to Contemporary Electronic Music

Author(s): Dušan Milenković
Subject(s): Music, Aesthetics
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: transcription; remix; classical music; electronic music; aesthetics of music; Stephen Davies;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I examine the views of contemporary aesthetician of music Stephen Davies about musical transcription as a special form of classical music and try to apply his theoretical views to remixing as a musical practice that is primarily related to contemporary electronic music. Using the theoretical approaches of Davies’ aesthetics of music, I point out the similarities between the creative attitudes of a musician in transcribing and remixing, similarities that can be found in the way these musical forms relate to the original composition on which transcriptions or remixes are based. Comparisons between transcription and remix are further investigated by considering the various roles that these musical practices fulfill in various cultural contexts.

  • Issue Year: 39/2019
  • Issue No: 04/156
  • Page Range: 875-892
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Croatian