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Music Semiotics: A Network of Significations - In Honour and Memory of Raymond Monelle (Paperback)
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Music Semiotics: A Network of Significations - In Honour and Memory of Raymond Monelle (Paperback)
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United in their indebtedness to the scholarship of Raymond Monelle,
an international group of contributors, including leading
authorities on music and culture, come together in this state of
the art volume to investigate different ways in which music
signifies. Music semiotics asks what music signifies as well as how
the signification process takes place. Looking at the nature of
musical texts and music's narrativity, a number of the essays in
this collection delve into the relationship between music and
philosophy, literature, poetry, folk traditions and the theatre,
with opera a genre that particularly lends itself to this mode of
investigation. Other contributions look at theories of musical
markedness, metaphor and irony, using examples and specific musical
texts to serve as case studies to validate their theoretical
approaches. Musical works discussed include those by Haydn, Mozart,
Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, Stravinsky, BartA(3)k, Xenakis,
Kutavicius and John Adams, offering stimulating discussions of
music that attest to its beauty as much as to its intellectual
challenge. Taking Monelle's writing as a model, the contributions
adhere to a method of logical argumentation presented in a
civilized and respectful way, even - and particularly - when
controversial issues are at stake, keeping in mind that
contemplating the significance of music is a way to contemplate
life itself.
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