Music as Message - An Introduction to Musical Semantics (Hardcover, New edition)

Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and political ideas. Countless composers encrypt contents in their music that can be deciphered by a variety of methods. This book is designed as an introduction to the basic questions of musical semantics and discusses Beethoven's committed art, the core ideas of the "Ring of the Nibelung" and of the "Symphony of a Thousand", Wagner's idea of a religion of art, the relation of music and poetry, the musico-literary conceptions of composers, the large field of program music and the history of the impact of Gustav Mahler.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Ag
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	February 2016
First published:	2016
Translators:	Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Authors:	Constantin Floros
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	339
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-631-66033-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > Perception Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Promotions
LSN:	3-631-66033-2
Barcode:	9783631660331

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