Music as Discourse
Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music
Seiten
2014
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-020640-6 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-020640-6 (ISBN)
The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. Is music a language? Does it communicate specific ideas and emotions? What does music mean, and how does this meaning occur?
Kofi Agawu's Music as Discourse has become a standard and definitive work in musical semiotics. Working at the nexus of musicology, ethnomusicology, and music philosophy and aesthetics, Agawu presents a synthetic and innovative approach to musical meaning which argues deftly for the thinking of music as a discourse in itself--composed not only of sequences of gestures, phrases, or progressions, but rather also of the very philosophical and linguistic props that enable the analytical formulations made about music as an object of study. The book provides extensive demonstration of the pertinence of a semiological approach to understanding the fully-freighted language of romantic music, stresses the importance of a generative approach to tonal understanding, and provides further insight into the analogy between music and language. Music as Discourse is an essential read for all who are interested in the theory, analysis and semiotics of music of the romantic period.
Kofi Agawu's Music as Discourse has become a standard and definitive work in musical semiotics. Working at the nexus of musicology, ethnomusicology, and music philosophy and aesthetics, Agawu presents a synthetic and innovative approach to musical meaning which argues deftly for the thinking of music as a discourse in itself--composed not only of sequences of gestures, phrases, or progressions, but rather also of the very philosophical and linguistic props that enable the analytical formulations made about music as an object of study. The book provides extensive demonstration of the pertinence of a semiological approach to understanding the fully-freighted language of romantic music, stresses the importance of a generative approach to tonal understanding, and provides further insight into the analogy between music and language. Music as Discourse is an essential read for all who are interested in the theory, analysis and semiotics of music of the romantic period.
Kofi Agawu is Professor of Music at Princeton University and an adjunct professor at the University of Ghana, Legon. He is also author of Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions.
Introduction ; PART I ; Theory ; 1. Music as Language ; 2. Criteria for Analysis I ; 3. Criteria for Analysis II ; 4. Bridges to Free Composition ; 5. Paradigmatic Analysis ; PART II ; Analyses ; 6. Liszt, Orpheus (1853-1854) ; 7. Brahms, Intermezzo in E Minor, op. 119, no. 2 (1893), and Symphony no. 1/ii (1872-1879) ; 8. Mahler, Symphony no. 9/i (1908-1909) ; 9. Beethoven, String Quartet, op. 130/i (1825-1826), and Stravinsky, Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920) ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.11.2014 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Studies in Music Theory |
| Zusatzinfo | 110 music examples |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 234 x 160 mm |
| Gewicht | 635 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-020640-3 / 0190206403 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-020640-6 / 9780190206406 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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