In Search of a Unified Style. Review of Constantin Floros’ book “Music as a Language of Man and a Language of Love”

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References

Floros, C. “Worldview and symphony of Gustav Mahler.” Muzykal’naya akademiya [Music Academy], no. 1, 1994, pp. 152–156. (In Russ.)
Floros, C. “Secret programs in instrumental music,” trans. and comm. by Yu. S. Veksler. Opera musicologica, no. 4, 2017, pp. 35–43. (In Russ.)
Taruskin, R. On Russian Music, Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 2009.

DOI 10.34690/374

Author Levon O. Hakobian (Akopyan)

Affiliation State Institute for Art Studies, Moscow, Russia

Email levonh451@yandex.ru

ORCID

0000-0002-5246-4697

Abstract

The author reviews Yuliya Veksler’s translation of the book by the German musicologist Constantin Floros “Music as the Language of Man and the Language of Love,” published by the St. Petersburg Novikov Publishing House in 2023. C. Floros is an outstanding researcher specializing in Austro-German musical culture. The main idea of the book is the development of the humanitarian dimension of music. Floros relies on the interdisciplinary nature of his methodology and strives to overcome the narrowness of the musicological approach by turning to other areas of knowledge—literary criticism, art history, philosophy, and psychology. This is the scholar’s first large-scale publication in Russian.

Keywords philosophy of music, musical hermeneutics, aesthetics of music, exegesis, humanitarian dimension of music, C. Floros, Yu. S. Veksler

For citation

Hakobian (Akopyan), L. H. “In search of a unified style. Review of Constantin Floros’ book ‘Music as a Language of Man and a Language of Love’.” Muzykal’naya akademiya [Music Academy], no. 1, 2024, pp. 202–207, doi:10.34690/374. (In Russ.)

Published 19.07.2023

Approved 30.08.2023

Submitted 25.03.2024

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