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SUMMARY:Crumpled Time: The Ambiguous Temporal Paradigms of Early 20th Cent
 ury European Culture - Allegra Fryxell
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CONTACT:Benjamin Folit-Weinberg
DESCRIPTION:Debates about the nature of ‘time’ permeated a staggering 
 range of scientific and artistic endeavours in fin-de-siècle Europe. This
  paper attempts to trace conceptualisations of time in philosophical and p
 sychological works by Bergson\, Guyau\, and Proust among others\, through 
 their counterparts in physical and mathematical discourses with the rise o
 f Einstein’s special theory of relativity in early twentieth-century pop
 ular literature. Though the influence of philosophical and/or scientific n
 otions of time in the visual arts has been a major focus of historical res
 earch to date\, particularly in the fields of art history and philosophy o
 f science\, there is no seminal work exploring how similar questions about
  temporal subjectivity shaped articulations of time in musical modernism. 
  How composers conceived of temporality is thus an area ripe for historica
 l inquiry. Drawing upon personal correspondence as well as critical review
 s of pieces by Claude Debussy\, Erik Satie\, Igor Stravinsky\, and Olivier
  Messiaen\, this paper combines approaches in cultural history and music t
 heory to demonstrate how time was expressed in French classical music of t
 he first half of the 20th century. It concludes that the treatment of time
 \, imbued with philosophical and scientific understandings of temporality\
 , was at the forefront of musical innovation during this period. 
LOCATION:Senior Parlour\, Gonville &amp\; Caius College
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