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Music as Discourse - Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music (Paperback)
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Music as Discourse - Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Music Theory
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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.
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