Ruwet is best known for his work as a linguist and critic, but he was also a significant figure in musical analysis. He attempted to make his analyses completely objective by not making any a priori assumptions about how the music worked, instead breaking the piece down into small parts and seeing how those parts related to each other, thus discovering the syntax of the piece without reference to any external sources or norms. His work in this field constitutes a kind of musical semiology and his analytical methods were later named paradigmatic analysis.
Some of his musical analyses were published along with other works in Langage, musique, poésie [Speech, music, poetry] (1972).
Ruwet died in Paris.
Bibliographyedit
(1967). Introduction à la Grammaire Générative. Plon.
nicolas, ruwet, december, 1932, november, 2001, linguist, literary, critic, musical, analyst, involved, with, development, generative, grammar, contents, biography, bibliography, also, references, external, linksbiography, editruwet, born, saive, belgium, stud. Nicolas Ruwet 31 December 1932 15 November 2001 was a linguist literary critic and musical analyst He was involved with the development of generative grammar 1 Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksBiography editRuwet was born in Saive in Belgium and studied philology in Liege Later he studied with Claude Levi Strauss and later still with Noam Chomsky and Roman Jakobson both influences 1 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology He studied music privately Ruwet is best known for his work as a linguist and critic but he was also a significant figure in musical analysis He attempted to make his analyses completely objective by not making any a priori assumptions about how the music worked instead breaking the piece down into small parts and seeing how those parts related to each other thus discovering the syntax of the piece without reference to any external sources or norms His work in this field constitutes a kind of musical semiology and his analytical methods were later named paradigmatic analysis Some of his musical analyses were published along with other works in Langage musique poesie Speech music poetry 1972 Ruwet died in Paris Bibliography edit 1967 Introduction a la Grammaire Generative Plon 1973 An Introduction to Generative Grammar ISBN 978 0 7204 6187 9 1991 Syntax and Human Experience See also editJean Jacques NattiezReferences edit a b All Obituary Nicolas Ruwet Thu Nov 15 2001 LINGUIST List 12 2879 External links edit Nicolas Ruwet 1932 2001 UChicago edu nbsp nbsp nbsp This article about a Belgian scientist is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This Belgian musical biography article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nicolas Ruwet amp oldid 1206655680, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
