Title Playing with Signs : a Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music.

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Description	1 online resource (167 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Princeton Legacy Library
	Princeton legacy library.
Contents	Cover; Contents; 1 Introduction.
Summary	Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyze the so-called Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this condition. Playing with Signs proposes a listener-oriented theory of Classic instrumental music that encompasses its two most fundamental communicative dimensions: expression and structure. Units of expression, defined in reference to topoi, are shown here to interact with, confront, and merge into units of structure, defined in terms of the r.
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Subject	Music -- Semiotics.
	Music -- Semiotics.
	Musical analysis.
	Musical analysis.
	Classicism in music.
	Classicism in music.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Agawu, V. Kofi. Playing with Signs : A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
ISBN	9781400861835 (electronic book)
	1400861837 (electronic book)