| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xi, 331 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Speaking of music : a view across disciplines and a lexicon of topoi / Keith Chapin and Andrew H. Clark -- Speaking of music / Lawrence Kramer -- Waiting for the death knell : speaking of music (so to speak) / Laura Odello -- Bach's silence, Mattheson's words ; professional and humanist ways of speaking of music / Keith Chapin -- Making music speak / Andrew H. Clark -- Rousseau : music, language, and politics / Tracy R. Strong -- Listening to music / Lawrence M. Zbikowski -- Mi manca la voce : how Balzac talks music--or how music takes place--in Massimilla Doni / John T. Hamilton -- Speaking of music in the Romantic era : dynamic and resistant aspects of musical genre / Matthew Gelbart -- Weather reports : discourse and musical cognition / Per Aage Brandt -- Messiaen, Deleuze, and the birds of proclamation / Sander van Maas -- Parole, parole : tautegory and the musicology of the (pop) song / Peter Szendy -- Speaking of microsound : the bodies of Henri Chopin / Kiene Brillenburg Wurth -- On the ethics of the unspeakable / Jairo Moreno -- Récit recitation recitative / Jean-Luc Nancy. |
| Summary |
People chat about music every day, but they also treat it as a limit, as the boundary of what is sayable. By addressing different perspectives and traditions that form and inform the speaking of music in Western culture--musical, literary, philosophical, semiotic, political--this volume offers a unique snapshot of today's scholarship on speech about music. The range of considerations and material is wide. Among others, they include the words used to interpret musical works (such as those of Beethoven), the words used to channel musical practices (whether Bach's, Rousseau's, or Hispanic political protesters'), and the words used to represent music (whether in a dialogue by Plato, in a story by Balzac, or in an Italian popular song). The contributors consider the ways that music may slide by words, as in the performance of an Akpafu dirge or in Messiaen, and the ways that music may serve as an embodied figure, as in the writings of Diderot or in the sound and body art of Henri Chopin. The book concludes with an essay by Jean-Luc Nancy [Publisher description]. |
| Language |
English text. |
| Subject |
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
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Musical criticism.
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Musical criticism. |
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Music and literature.
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Music and literature. |
| Added Author |
Chapin, Keith Moore, editor.
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Clark, Andrew Herrick, 1973- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780823251384 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0823251381 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780823251391 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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082325139X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
40022617242 |
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