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Playing with Signs - A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music (Hardcover)
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Playing with Signs - A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly
listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyze the so-called
Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this
condition. Playing with Signs proposes a listener-oriented theory
of Classic instrumental music that encompasses its two most
fundamental communicative dimensions: expression and structure.
Units of expression, defined in reference to topoi, are shown here
to interact with, confront, and merge into units of structure,
defined in terms of the rhetorical conventions of beginning,
continuing, and ending. The book draws on examples from works by
Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven to show that the explicitly
referential, even theatrical, surface of Classic music derives from
a play with signs. Although addressed primarily to readers
interested in musical analysis, the book opens up fruitful avenues
for further research into musical semiotics, aesthetics, and
Classicism. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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