ABSTRACT
This book opens with a consideration of the poiesis of the … Bach … project. The first chapter explores the inspirational example provided by the filmic correspondences initiated by Victor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami, through a proposal of the Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture, and subsequently expanded by five further pairs of film directors. I analyze how these filmic exchanges were conceived as a questioning of some of the dominant ideas that permeate most contemporary authorship theories. The following section explores how the … Bach … project reflected those elements. Finally, a brief remark on the nature of the project’s commissions leads to the introduction of the three fundamental questions – presented as three challenges to “traditional musicology” – that this text attempts to answer.
