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Author Bonds, Mark Evan.

Title Wordless rhetoric : musical form and the metaphor of the oration / Mark Evan Bonds.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML3845 .B64 1991    Available  ---
 Talbott Annex  b13297892    Available  Ask Librarian for access
Description 237 pages : music ; 25 cm.
Series Studies in the history of music ; 4
Studies in the history of music (Cambridge, Mass.) ; 4.
Note "Originals of quotations given in translation"--Pages 207-230.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The paradox of musical form -- Rhetoric and the concept of musical form in the eighteenth century -- Continuity and change in later metaphors of form -- Rhetoric and the autonomy of instrumental music -- Rhetoric and the role of the listener in the analysis of large-scale form.
Subject Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Musical form.
Musical form.
ISBN 0674956028