Title
Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
12-2020
Abstract
This chapter investigates a variety of ways in which music might be thought to be essentially spatial in relatively literal ways. It begins by considering whether certain spaces or spatial features are essential to musical works or performances. These include the space of a work’s composition, performance spaces for which a work is composed or within which it is performed, and the spatial disposition of performers (e.g., off-stage instruments). It then considers spaces “within” music, paying special attention to the notion of “pitch space”—the space in which we experience musical tones as higher or lower than one another and melodic lines as moving.
DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199367313.013.43
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
9780199367313, 9780199367337
Repository Citation
Kania, A. (2020). Space. In T. McAuley, N. Nielsen, J. Levinson, & A. Phillips-Hutton (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Western music and philosophy (pp. 878-893). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199367313.013.43
Publication Information
The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy