Singing in Signs - New Semiotic Explorations of Opera (Hardcover)

Singing in Signs: New Semiotic Explorations of Opera offers a bold and refreshing assessment of the state of opera study as seen through the lens of semiotics. At its core, the volume responds to Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker's Analyzing Opera, utilizing a semiotic framework to embrace opera on its own terms and engage all of its constituent elements in interpretation. Chapters in this collection resurrect the larger sense of serious operatic study as a multi-faceted, interpretive discipline, no longer in isolation. Contributors pay particular attention to the musical, dramatic, cultural, and performative in opera and how these modes can create an intertext that informs interpretation. Combining traditional and emerging methodologies, Singing in Signs engages composer-constructed and work-specific music-semiotic systems, broader socio-cultural music codes, and narrative strategies, with implications for performance and staging practices today.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2020
Editors:	Gregory J Decker (Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition) • Matthew R. Shaftel (Dean of the college of Fine Arts)
Dimensions:	238 x 161 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-062062-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Opera Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Techniques of music > General Books > Music > Techniques of music > General Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-062062-5
Barcode:	9780190620622

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