Heft 04 / Oktober 2016

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Music Theory and Value Judgements: Observations on the History of a Systematic Field – A glance at music history shows that there have always been struggles to describe musical material and its treatment. Theories can be founded on value judgements, imply them or indeed lead to them. As an applied, practical system of musical texture, music theory virtually trains its purveyors to internalize value judgements in order to make aesthetic compositional decisions. Today, a misguided understanding of plurality that does not permit genuine contradiction can lead to music theory no longer daring to make value judgements. This article argues the case for acknowledging the competition between different theories and productively continuing it.

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