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More than meets the ear : a study of the semantics of music / Gilbert R. Fischer.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3800 .F448 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fischer, Gilbert, 1917-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Music.
- Music--Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.).
- Music--Analysis, appreciation.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 629 pages : music ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2002]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Roots and Sources. Music Games 1
- Chapter 2 The Game of Likenesses 9
- Chapter 3 The Sound of Music 19
- Chapter 4 Symbolism and Semiotics in Music 23
- Chapter 5 The Materials of Music 31
- Chapter 6 The Rhetoric of Music 35
- Chapter 7 Musical Hermeneutics 43
- Chapter 8 Listening Historically 49
- Chapter 9 Point of View in Music 53
- Part 2 Principles Specific to Music
- Chapter 10 Musical Tension 59
- Chapter 11 Other Sources of Tension 79
- Chapter 12 Song and Dance 85
- Chapter 13 Melody and Melodic Line: Some Consequences 93
- Part 3 The Literature of the Piano
- Chapter 14 Introductory Remarks 99
- Chapter 15 First Analysis: Mephisto Waltz 107
- Chapter 16 Second Analysis: Two-Part Inventions in F and fm 117
- Chapter 17 Third Analysis: Reflets dans l'eau 131
- Chapter 18 Moods: Works by Bach, Byrd, Mozart, Chopin, Schubert and Rachmaninoff 137
- Chapter 19 Short Romantic Compositions 159
- Chapter 20 Short Romantic Compositions (cont.) 191
- Chapter 21 Short Classic and Baroque Compositions 229
- Chapter 22 Compositions of Intermediate Length 253
- Chapter 23 Theme and Variations 267
- Chapter 24 Beethoven Sonatas 291
- Chapter 25 The Sonata: Other Composers 325
- Chapter 26 Romantic Sonatas and Fantasies 375
- Chapter 27 Nationalism 423
- Chapter 28 Back to Bach 441
- Chapter 29 Fugue after Bach 473
- Chapter 30 Debussy and Ravel 493
- Chapter 31 More Clothes for the Emperor 533
- Chapter 32 More Clothes for the Emperor (cont.) 559
- Chapter 33 Later Developments 575
- Appendix Rhetorical Figures in Music 581.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [603]-605) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761817514
- OCLC:
- 45582612
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