| Description |
viii, 256 pages : music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Musical meaning and interpretation
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Musical meaning and interpretation.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and index. |
| Contents |
Prelude: Is language a music? -- PART ONE: STRUCTURALIST PERSPECTIVES -- Structure and function in musical repetition -- Allegretto of Beethoven's Seventh -- Mediation as a principle of musical form : three examples -- PART TWO: SEMIOTIC POLEMICS -- Nattiez's foundations for musical semiotics -- Our time with the druids : what (and how) we can recuperate from our obsession with segmental hierarchies and other "tree structures" -- Why we still need Peirce -- PART III: FROM GESTURES TO DISCOURSES -- Mind and body in music -- Opera operta : realism and rehabilitation in La traviata -- A monument in song (1996) : Beverly (Buffy) Sainte-Marie's "Bury my heart at Wounded Knee" -- PART FOUR: THE MESSAGES OF METHODS -- Bartók the progressive -- Art of music theory and the aesthetic category of the possible -- Technique and signification in the twelve-tone method -- Project of abstraction and the persistence of the figure in twentieth-century music and painting : on the music of Elliott Carter, with a postscript on the Ninth symphony of Beethoven -- PART FIVE: RESISTING REPRESENTATION -- Replaying my voice mail. |
| Subject |
Music -- Semiotics.
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Music -- Semiotics. |
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Music and language.
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Music and language. |
| ISBN |
0253343836 cloth alkaline paper |
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