Computed Counterpoint: Discourses of Modernist Bach Reception and Technology in the Twentieth Century

计算对位法：二十世纪现代主义巴赫接受与技术的话语

基本信息

批准号：
2890026
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
University of Cambridge
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2023 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2890026
关键词：
Computed Counterpoint Discourses Modernist Bach

项目摘要

Since the late nineteenth century, there has been a strand of reception that imagines J.S. Bach's music as proceeding,objectively, from the rules of counterpoint. Bach's instrumental works specifically are regularly lauded in 'scientific' terms.This mathematical reception has seen constant development throughout the twentieth century. Bach's association withcomputer technology and artificial intelligence is an especially interesting young field of association. The recententhusiasm in machine learning for imitating Bach's compositional style shows that a form of this discourse still holdscultural power. The purpose of this thesis is an evaluation of this reception of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach inconnection with modernism in Germany, the United Kingdom, and North America in the twentieth and twenty-firstcenturies. Scholars have acknowledged the prevalence of Bach's music in contexts of science and technology, but so farthere is no overarching cultural history of this phenomenon. This thesis endeavours to provide the first step, through amethodology that treats reception as discourse. As the prevalence of machine learning in the arts grows, the questionwhy Bach's music seems to resonate with it gives us insight into the cultural meanings of Bach, as well as the aestheticappeal of the hard sciences. Please refer to the full research proposal and OOCDTP form for a more detailed impressionof my project.

自 19 世纪末以来，出现了一股想象 J.S.巴赫的音乐客观上是从对位规则出发的。巴赫的器乐作品经常受到“科学”术语的称赞。这种数学接受在整个二十世纪不断发展。巴赫与计算机技术和人工智能的联系是一个特别有趣的年轻领域。最近机器学习对模仿巴赫作曲风格的热情表明，这种话语的一种形式仍然拥有文化力量。本论文的目的是评估二十世纪和二十一世纪德国、英国和北美现代主义对约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫音乐的接受情况。学者们承认巴赫音乐在科学和技术背景下的流行，但到目前为止，还没有这种现象的总体文化史。本文试图通过将接受视为话语的方法论来迈出第一步。随着机器学习在艺术中的普及，巴赫的音乐为何与之产生共鸣的问题让我们深入了解巴赫的文化意义，以及硬科学的美学吸引力。请参阅完整的研究计划和 OOCDTP 表格，以更详细地了解我的项目。