Is language a music? : writings on musical form and signification
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Is language a music? : writings on musical form and signification
（Musical meaning and interpretation / Robert S. Hatten, editor）
Indiana University Press, c2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-252) and index
Contents of Works
- Is language a music? -- Structuralist perspectives. Structure and function in musical repetition ; The Allegretto of Beethoven's Seventh ; Mediation as a principle of musical form : three examples -- 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 -- 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" -- The messages of methods. Bartók the progressive ; The art of music theory and the aesthetic category of the possible ; Technique and signification in the twelve-tone method ; The project of abstraction and the persistence of the figure in twentieth-cent -- Resisting representation. Replaying my voice mail.
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Is Language a Music? presents broadly ranging explorations of musical reference that address how and why language cannot be the only measure of meanings. Music, the author insists, is pervaded by significations, but often their erasure is as pertinent to artistry as their construction. This volume's 15 essays in musical semiotics are grouped into sections that treat issues in structural description, present alternative views of theoretical foundations, consider the elaboration of gestural references to form musical discourse, explore some stylistic issues in 20th-century music, and examine the resistance to reference which is esteemed in the tradition of absolute music.
Musical Meaning and Interpretation-Robert S. Hatten, editor
Table of Contents
Foreword
1. Prelude-Is Language a Music?
Part I. Structuralist Pespectives-Introduction
2. Structure and Function in Repetition.
3. The Allegretto of Beethoven's Seventh.
4. Mediation as a Formal Principle in Music: Three Examples.
Part II. Semiotic Polemics-Introduction
5. Nattiez's Fondements.
6. Our Time with Druids.
7. Why We Still Need Peirce.
Part III. From Gestures to Discourses-Introduction
8. Mind and Body in Music.
9. Opera Operta: Realism and Rehabilitation in La Traviata
10. A Monument in Song: Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee by Beverley (Buffy) St. Marie.
Part IV. The Messages of Methods-Introduction
11. Bartok the Progessive.
12. The Art of Music Theory and the Aesthetic Category of the Possible
13. Technique and Signification in the Twelve-Tone Method
14. The Project of Abstraction in Painting and Music.
Part V. Resisting Representation-Introduction
15. Replaying my Voice Mail
Notes
References
Index
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