"The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites."—Eli Siegel

Music Classes at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation
 

Learn what makes music beautiful & what music says about life and you!

THE OPPOSITES IN MUSIC 
Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, Edward Green

This class is based on the Aesthetic Realism principle "Art is that which, through an individual, shows the oneness of the permanent opposites in reality." We study instances of music, from Bach's "Magnificat" to Duke Ellington's "The Mooche," in relation to Eli Siegel's "Aesthetic Realism As Beauty: Music," and Martha Baird's "Music Is Real."

Visit Edward Green's Aesthetic Realism and Music site along with Anne Fielding's Actress, Aesthetic Realism Consultant and Barbara Allen's The Aesthetic Realism Understanding of Music & More: websites belonging to the teachers of The Opposites In Music class.

Alternate Sundays, 4:00 - 5:30 PM 

For Information about Registration for Classes at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation — Fall 2010 semester, click here.

Some Publications by the Teachers of this Class

"Aesthetic Realism Explains the Beauty of Jazz and of Duke Ellington: A Talk by Edward Green" by Carrie Wilson

"The Beginnings of Music: The Opposites in the Flute. An Aesthetic Realism Consideration" by Barbara Allen

"Aesthetic Realism: A New Foundation for Interdisciplinary Musicology" by Edward Green and Arnold Perey. Published in: R. Parncutt, A. Kessler & F. Zimmer (Eds.) Proceedings of the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM04)  Graz/Austria, 15-18 April, 2004 

Review in The Journal of Music and Meaning (JMM) written by Edward Green about a work by Michael Tenzer titled, Gamelan Gong Kebyar: the Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music. Chicago and London: the University of Chicago Press, 2000. xxv, 492 pp.

"In this innovative, carefully reasoned book Michael Tenzer provides a comprehensive, technical account of modern Balinese music. Surprisingly, he approaches the task in a boldly syncretic manner, making coordinated use of indigenous Balinese musical concepts as well as Western analytic tools....The central fact about this book is that it is thrilling, ear-opening, mind-enhancing: a magisterial work".

"The Mix-up in Marriage about Coldness and Warmth" by Barbara Allen includes a study of the life Cosima Wagner, wife of Richard Wagner, & a discussion of Die Meistersinger. Click here to continue >>

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