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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808536103321

Titolo

Speaking of music : addressing the sonorous / / edited by Keith Chapin and Andrew H. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8232-5139-X

0-8232-5302-3

0-8232-5140-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChapinKeith Moore

ClarkAndrew Herrick <1973->

Disciplina

781

Soggetti

Music - Philosophy and aesthetics

Musical criticism

Music and literature

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

""contents""; ""illustrations""; ""acknowledgments""; ""Speaking of Music: A View across Disciplines and a Lexicon of Topoi ""; ""Speaking of Music ""; ""Waiting for the Death Knell: Speaking of Music (So to Speak) ""; ""Bach�s Silence, Matthe son�s Words: Professional and Humanist Ways of Speaking of Music ""; ""Making Music Speak ""; ""Rousseau: Music, Language, and Politics ""; ""Listening to Music ""; ""Mi manca la voce: How Balzac Talks Music�or How Music Takes Place�in Massimilla Doni""; ""Speaking of Music in the Romantic Era: Dynamic and Resistant Aspects of Musical Genre ""

Sommario/riassunto

By addressing different perspectives and traditions that form and inform the speaking of music in Western culture - musical, literary, philosophical, semiotic, political - this volume offers a snapshot of today's scholarship on speech about music.