| Author | : Eero Tarasti |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 613 |
| Release | : 2011-09-06 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110885182 |
Musical Signification
| Author | : Eero Tarasti |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 620 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9783110140408 |
Mapping Musical Signification
| Author | : Joan Grimalt |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 2021-01-23 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3030524965 |
This book is a unique attempt to systematize the latest research on all that music connotes. Musicological reflections on musically expressive content have been pursued for some decades now, in spite of the formalist prejudices that can still hindermusicians and music lovers. The author organizes this body of research so that both professionals and everyday listeners can benefit from it – in plain English, but without giving up the level of depth required by the subject matter. Two criteria have guided his choice among the many ways to speak about musical meaning: its relevance to performance, and its suitability to the teaching context. The legacy of the so-called art music, without an interpretive approach that links ancient traditions to our present, runs the risk of missing the link to the new generations of musicians and listeners. Complementing the theoretical, systematic content, each chapter includes a wealth of examples, including the so-called popular music.
Musical Meaning in Beethoven
| Author | : Robert S. Hatten |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 2004-10-20 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780253217110 |
Award-winning examination of Beethoven's music.
The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification
| Author | : Esti Sheinberg |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 437 |
| Release | : 2020-03-17 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1351237519 |
The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification captures the richness and complexity of the field, presenting 30 essays by recognized international experts that reflect current interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to the subject. Examinations of music signification have been an essential component in thinking about music for millennia, but it is only in the last few decades that music signification has been established as an independent area of study. During this time, the field has grown exponentially, incorporating a vast array of methodologies that seek to ground how music means and to explore what it may mean. Research in music signification typically embraces concepts and practices imported from semiotics, literary criticism, linguistics, the visual arts, philosophy, sociology, history, and psychology, among others. By bringing together such approaches in transparent groupings that reflect the various contexts in which music is created and experienced, and by encouraging critical dialogues, this volume provides an authoritative survey of the discipline and a significant advance in inquiries into music signification. This book addresses a wide array of readers, from scholars who specialize in this and related areas, to the general reader who is curious to learn more about the ways in which music makes sense.
Musical Meaning
| Author | : Lawrence Kramer |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2021-06-22 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0520382978 |
Ranging widely over classical music, jazz, popular music, and film and television music, Musical Meaning uncovers the historical importance of asking about meaning in the lived experience of musical works, styles, and performances. Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of new resources for understanding music. In this accessible and eloquently written book, he argues boldly that humanistic, not just technical, meaning is a basic force in music history and an indispensable factor in how, where, and when music is heard. He demonstrates that thinking about music can become a vital means of thinking about general questions of meaning, subjectivity, and value. First published in 2001, Musical Meaning anticipates many of the musicological topics of today, including race, performance, embodiment, and media. In addition, Kramer explores music itself as a source of understanding via his composition Revenants for piano, revised for this edition and available on the UC Press website.
Musical Meaning and Expression
| Author | : Stephen Davies |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780801481512 |
We talk not only of enjoying music, but of understanding it. Music is often taken to have expressive import--and in that sense to have meaning. But what does music mean, and how does it mean? Stephen Davies addresses these questions in this sophisticated and knowledgeable overview of current theories in the philosophy of music. Reviewing and criticizing the aesthetic positions of recent years, he offers a spirited explanation of his own position. Davies considers and rejects in turn the positions that music describes (like language), or depicts (like pictures), or symbolizes (in a distinctive fashion) emotions. Similarly, he resists the idea that music's expressiveness is to be explained solely as the composer's self-expression, or in terms of its power to evoke a response from the audience. Music's ability to describe emotions, he believes, is located within the music itself; it presents the aural appearance of what he calls emotion characteristics. The expressive power of music awakens emotions in the listener, and music is valued for this power although the responses are sometimes ones of sadness. Davies shows that appreciation and understanding may require more than recognition of and reaction to music's expressive character, but need not depend on formal musicological training.
Music and Meaning
| Author | : Jenefer Robinson |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2018-09-05 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 150172973X |
In order to promote new ways of thinking about musical meaning, this volume brings together scholars in music theory, musicology, and the philosophy of music, disciplines generally treated as separate and distinct. This interdisciplinary collaboration, while respecting differences in perspective, identifies and elaborates shared concerns. This volume focuses on the many and various kinds of meaning in music. Do musical meanings exist exclusively in internal, formal musical relations or might they also be found in the relationship between music and other areas of experience, such as action, emotion, ideas, and values? Also discussed is the vexed question why people listen to and apparently enjoy music which expresses unpleasant emotions, such as melancholy or despair. Among the particular pieces the writers discuss are Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, and Schubert's last sonata. More broadly, they consider the relation of musical meaning and interpretation to language, storytelling, drama, imagination, metaphor, and emotion.
Approaches to Meaning in Music
| Author | : Byron Almén |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2006-11-01 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0253112192 |
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 association, musical symbols and creative mythopoesis, the articulation of silence, the mutual interaction of cultural and music-artistic phenomena, and the analysis of gesture. Contributors are Byron Almén, J. Peter Burkholder, Nicholas Cook, Robert S. Hatten, Patrick McCreless, Jann Pasler, and Edward Pearsall.
