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Author Kramer, Lawrence, 1946-

Title Musical meaning : toward a critical history / Lawrence Kramer.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 335 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Hermeneutics and musical history: a primer without rules, an exercise with Schubert -- Hands on, lights off: the Moonlight Sonata and the birth of sex at the piano -- Beyond words and music: an essay on songfulness -- Franz Liszt and the virtuoso public sphere: sight and sound in the rise of mass entertainment -- Rethinking Schumann's Carnaval: identity, meaning, and the social order -- Glottis envy: the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera -- Hercules' hautboys: mixed media and musical meaning -- The voice of Persephone: musical meaning and mixed media -- Powers of blackness: jazz and the blues in modern concert music -- Long ride in a slow machine: the alienation effect from Weill to Shostakovich -- Chiaroscuro: Coltrane's American songbook -- Ghost stories: cultural memory, mourning, and the myth of originality.
Summary Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of the controversial new musicology, integrating the study of music with social and cultural issues. This book continues and deepens the trajectory of Kramer's thinking as it argues that humanistic meaning is a basic force in music history.
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Subject Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- History and criticism.
Music.
Subjectivity in music.
Subjectivity in music.
Music, Influence of.
Music, Influence of.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Kramer, Lawrence, 1946- Musical meaning. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002 0520228243 (DLC) 2001027819 (OCoLC)47254158
ISBN 9780520928329 (electronic book)
0520928326 (electronic book)
0585466246 (electronic book)
9780585466248 (electronic book)
0520228243
9780520228245
0520232720
9780520232723