Marcel Cobussen

Netherlands °1962
research interests: sound studies, continental philosophy, improvisation, music aesthetics, New Materialism
affiliation: Leiden University
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Marcel Cobussen is Full Professor of Auditory Culture and Music Philosophy at Leiden University (theNetherlands) and the Orpheus Institute in Ghent (Belgium). He studied jazz piano at the Conservatory of Rotterdam and Art and Cultural Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands).

 

Cobussen is author of several books, among them The Field of Musical Improvisation (LUP 2017), Music and Ethics (Ashgate 2012/Routledge 2017, co-author Nanette Nielsen), and Thresholds. Rethinking Spirituality Through Music (Ashgate 2008). He is editor of The Handbook of Sonic Methodologies (Bloomsbury 2020, co-editor Michael Bull), The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art (Routledge 2016, co-editors Barry Truax and Vincent Meelberg) and Resonanties. Verkenningen tussen kunsten en wetenschappen (LUP 2011).  He is editor-in-chief of the open access online Journal of Sonic Studies (www.sonicstudies.org). His PhD dissertation Deconstruction in Music (Erasmus University Rotterdam 2002) is presented as an online website located at www.deconstruction-in-music.com.

 


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Exposition: Playing Schumann Again for the First Time (23/01/2024) by Bobby Mitchell
Marcel Cobussen 26/03/2019 at 10:43

An investigation of improvisation in the Western tradition, therefore, would be more illuminating of this tradition if it concentrated

 

Is this quote correct, either YOUR representation or S-V's English? I'm struggling with this "of this tradition"


Exposition: Playing Schumann Again for the First Time (23/01/2024) by Bobby Mitchell
Marcel Cobussen 25/03/2019 at 15:17

where classical music was practiced


Exposition: Playing Schumann Again for the First Time (23/01/2024) by Bobby Mitchell
Marcel Cobussen 25/03/2019 at 15:17

where classical music was practiced


Exposition: Playing Schumann Again for the First Time (23/01/2024) by Bobby Mitchell
Marcel Cobussen 25/03/2019 at 15:16

where classical music was practiced


Exposition: Playing Schumann Again for the First Time (23/01/2024) by Bobby Mitchell
Marcel Cobussen 25/03/2019 at 15:15

An investigation of improvisation in the Western tradition, therefore, would be more illuminating of this tradition if it concentrated not on what makes the periods that allowed for the practice of improvisation exceptional, but rather on what makes the short period that excluded it--roughly from the second half of the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century—exceptional. (Sancho-Velázquez 2001, 83)

 

Is this really a correct quote: the "of this tradition" looks completely weird here


Exposition: Playing Schumann Again for the First Time (23/01/2024) by Bobby Mitchell
Marcel Cobussen 25/03/2019 at 15:10

Schumann was in the midst of all of this musical practice that was completely saturated with improvisation, and I believe that this reality offers full justification for using his music as a starting point for practicing improvisation today.

 

The last part of this sentence (after "improvisation") has to be altered completely. NEVER use BELIEVE in a dissertation. It is not BELIEF, you have provided (or should provide) EVIDENCE, so you have ARGUED or PROVEN something. 

That it justifies what you write is outside of the context of this chapter and can thius be omitted