Title Music in search of itself : essays on music about music / David B. Greene.

Publication Info.	Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, [2005]
	©2005

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Talbott: Circulating Collection	MT90 .G74 2005	Available	---

Description	iii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	Studies in the history and interpretation of music ; v. 110
	Studies in the history and interpretation of music ; v. 110.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162) and index.
Contents	The possibility of music about music. Kinds of reference and self-reference in music -- Meta-music and aesthetic experience -- The contextuality of music about music -- Hearing the possibility of music about music : five pieces. Handel's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day : a celebration of the musicality of the Divine -- Beethoven's Diabelli variations : a meditation on creating -- Britten's War requiem : an indictment of religious music -- Penderecki's De natura sonoris : a musical essay on the musicality of sound -- Strauss's Capriccio : an affair of musically felt words -- The need for music about music. The aesthetic consciousness and its impasses -- Music about music and the aesthetic impasses -- Double movements in musical aesthetics of music -- Hearing the need for music about music : a reprise of five pieces -- The impossibility of music about music. Mahler's Seventh symphony and its statement on meaning in music -- Gaps in musical meaning and the impossibility of music about music -- The subjectlikeness of music -- Hearing the impossibility of music about music : the five pieces again.
Subject	Musical analysis.
	Musical analysis.
	Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
	Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
ISBN	0773463356