Shapinskaya Ekaterina Nikolaevna,
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor,
Russian State University of Physical Education,
Sport, Youth and Tourism.
e-mail: reenash@mail.ru

Subject positions in musical cognitivism:
from interpretation to reflection.
About the books by J. Bostridge "Schubert's Winter Journey"
and J. E. Gardiner " Music in the Heavenly City»

Abstract. The article examines the problems of understanding music from the point of view of interaction of emotional perceiving and theoretical reflection. Basing on the case of two works on Schubert and J.S.Bach, written by outstanding musicians of our time, I.Bostridge and J.E.Gardiner, the role of author’s subject position is examined as well as of reconstruction of historical and cultural context of the works as the prerequisite for deeper understanding. The author of the article points out changes in the attitude to music pieces after reading these books, which shows relevance of music cognitivism, not diminishing the impact of music, but, on the contrary, showing its new aspects if the author combines personal experience and research capabilities. Special accent is placed on regarding subjective approach to the works performed and analysed used by the authors as the result of merging of performing experience and research work. Such approach is relevant for contemporary art studies in which the subject/object duality is deconstructed and multidisciplinary research prevails.

Keywords: music, cognitivism, performance, interpretation, cultural context, subjectivity, distancing, emotion, verbal expression, theoretic reflection
 

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