LEADER 03922nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910455514503321 005 20211001021051.0 010 $a1400814472 010 $a1-4008-2403-6 010 $a1-282-79002-1 010 $a9786612790027 010 $a1-4008-1447-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824038 035 $a(CKB)111056486504678 035 $a(EBL)616667 035 $a(OCoLC)699474586 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000442266 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11284903 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000442266 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10462642 035 $a(PQKB)10053430 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC616667 035 $a(OCoLC)52256483 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36086 035 $a(DE-B1597)446263 035 $a(OCoLC)1054880448 035 $a(OCoLC)979741811 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824038 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL616667 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10420331 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL279002 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486504678 100 $a20000424d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe sense of music$b[electronic resource] $esemiotic essays /$fRaymond Monelle ; with a foreword by Robert Hatten 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource 311 0 $a0-691-05716-8 311 0 $a0-691-05715-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-242) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tFOREWORD /$rHatten, Robert S. --$tPREFACE --$t1. The Wordless Song --$t2. The Search for Topics --$t3. Topic and Leitmotiv --$t4. The Temporal Image --$t5. Genre and Structure --$t6. Text and Subjectivity --$t7. Mahler and Gustav --$t8. Allegory and Deconstruction --$t9. New Beginnings --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aThe fictional Dr. Strabismus sets out to write a new comprehensive theory of music. But music's tendency to deconstruct itself combined with the complexities of postmodernism doom him to failure. This is the parable that frames The Sense of Music, a novel treatment of music theory that reinterprets the modern history of Western music in the terms of semiotics. Based on the assumption that music cannot be described without reference to its meaning, Raymond Monelle proposes that works of the Western classical tradition be analyzed in terms of temporality, subjectivity, and topic theory. Critical of the abstract analysis of musical scores, Monelle argues that the score does not reveal music's sense. That sense--what a piece of music says and signifies--can be understood only with reference to history, culture, and the other arts. Thus, music is meaningful in that it signifies cultural temporalities and themes, from the traditional manly heroism of the hunt to military power to postmodern "polyvocality." This theoretical innovation allows Monelle to describe how the Classical style of the eighteenth century--which he reads as a balance of lyric and progressive time--gave way to the Romantic need for emotional realism. He argues that irony and ambiguity subsequently eroded the domination of personal emotion in Western music as well as literature, killing the composer's subjectivity with that of the author. This leaves Dr. Strabismus suffering from the postmodern condition, and Raymond Monelle with an exciting, controversial new approach to understanding music and its history. 606 $aMusic$xSemiotics 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMusic$xSemiotics. 676 $a780/.1/4 700 $aMonelle$b Raymond$f1937-$0853800 701 $aHatten$b Robert$0994731 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455514503321 996 $aThe sense of music$92278330 997 $aUNINA