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

• 批准号: 2890026
• 金额: --
• 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

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.

自十九世纪末以来，一直有一股接受的声音，认为巴赫的音乐客观上是从复调规则出发的。巴赫的乐器作品经常被誉为“科学的”，这种对数学的接受在整个二十世纪都有不断的发展。巴赫与计算机技术和人工智能的联想是一个特别有趣的年轻联想领域。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具有文化力量。这篇论文的目的是评价约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫的音乐在二十世纪和二十一世纪与德国、英国和北美现代主义相联系的这种接受。学者们已经认识到巴赫音乐在科学技术背景下的流行，但到目前为止，还没有关于这一现象的总体文化史。本文试图通过将接受视为话语的方法论来提供第一步。随着机器学习在艺术领域的普及，为什么巴赫的音乐似乎与机器学习产生共鸣，这一问题让我们深入了解了巴赫的文化内涵，以及硬科学的美学吸引力。请参考完整的研究计划书和OOCDTP表格，以了解对我的项目的更详细的印象。