| Description |
1 online resource (284 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Cover; Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epiograph; Contents; List of Music Examples; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. From Rhetoric to Semiotics; 2. The Sense of Touch in Don Giovanni; 3. Topics in Context; 4. Mozart and Marxism; 5. A Dubious Credo; 6. Archaic Endings; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
In this groundbreaking, historically-informed semiotic study of late eighteenth-century music, Stephen Rumph focuses on Mozart to explore musical meaning within the context of Enlightenment sign and language theory. Illuminating his discussion with French, British, German, and Italian writings on signs and language, Rumph analyzes movements from Mozart's symphonies, concertos, operas, and church music. He argues that Mozartian semiosis is best understood within the empiricist tradition of Condillac, Vico, Herder, or Adam Smith, which emphasized the constitutive role of signs within human cogni. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Music -- Semiotics.
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Music -- Semiotics. |
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Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment. |
| Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rumph, Stephen. Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520260863 |
| ISBN |
9780520950115 |
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0520950119 |
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9780520260863 |
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0520260864 |
| Standard No. |
9786613520531 |
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