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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451698903321

Autore

Lowe Melanie Diane <1969->

Titolo

Pleasure and meaning in the classical symphony [[electronic resource] /] / Melanie Lowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-06577-7

9786612065774

0-253-00006-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Musical meaning and interpretation

Disciplina

784.2184

Soggetti

Symphony

Symphonies - Analysis, appreciation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

On meanings of musical meaning -- The immediacy of structural understanding -- Enlightening the listening subject -- Entertaining pleasure -- Pleasure and meaning in Haydn's Symphony in D major, no. 93 -- Old entertainments, new pleasures : meanings of late-eighteenth-century public instrumental music in contemporary American culture.

Sommario/riassunto

Classical music permeates contemporary life. Encountered in waiting                rooms, movies, and hotel lobbies as much as in the concert hall, perennial                orchestral favorites mingle with commercial jingles, video-game soundtracks, and the                booming bass from a passing car to form the musical soundscape of our daily lives.                In this provocative and ground-breaking study, Melanie Lowe explores why the public                instrumental music of late-eighteenth-century Europe has remained accessible,                entertaining, and distinctly pleas