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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820681903321

Titolo

Approaches to meaning in music / / edited by Byron Almen and Edward Pearsall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-07298-6

9786612072987

0-253-11219-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Musical meaning and interpretation

Disciplina

781.1/7

Soggetti

Music - Philosophy and aesthetics

Music - Semiotics

Musical analysis

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 (p. [215]-226) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The divining rod : on imagination, interpretation, and analysis / Edward Pearsall and Byron Almen -- Anatomy of a gesture : from Davidovsky to Chopin and back / Patrick McCreless -- Anti-teleological art : articulating meaning through silence / Edward Pearsall -- The troping of temporality in music / Robert S. Hatten -- A simple model for associative musical meaning / J. Peter Burkholder -- Uncanny moments : juxtaposition and the collage principle in music / Nicholas Cook -- The sacrificed hero : creative mythopoesis in Mahler's Wunderhorn symphonies / Byron Almen -- Contingencies of meaning in transcriptions and excerpts : popularizing Samson et Dalila / Jann Pasler.

Sommario/riassunto

Approaches to Meaning in Music presents a survey of the problems and                issues inherent in pursuing meaning and signification in music, and attempts to                rectify the conundrums that have plagued philosophers, artists, and theorists since                the time of Pythagoras. This collection brings together essays that reflect a                variety of diverse perspectives on approaches to musical meaning. Established music                theorists and musicologists cover topics including musical aspect and temporality,                collage, borrowing



and associ