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Approaches to meaning in music / edited by Byron Almén and Edward Pearsall.

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Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3845 .A67 2006
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Almén, Byron, 1968- editor, contributor.
Pearsall, Edward, 1954- editor, contributor.
Series:
Musical meaning and interpretation
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music.
Music--Semiotics.
Musical analysis.
Physical Description:
239 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006]
Summary:
An invaluable source of diverse perspectives on the subject of musical meaning
Contents:
The divining rod : on imagination, interpretation, and analysis / Edward Pearsall and Byron Almén
Anatomy of a gesture : from Davidovsky to Chopin and back / Patrick McCreless
Anti-teleological art : articulating meaning through silence / Edward Pearsall
The troping of temporality in music / Robert S. Hatten
A simple model for associative musical meaning / J. Peter Burkholder
Uncanny moments : juxtaposition and the collage principle in music / Nicholas Cook
The sacrificed hero : creative mythopoesis in Mahler's Wunderhorn symphonies / Byron Almén
Contingencies of meaning in transcriptions and excerpts : popularizing Samson et Dalila / Jann Pasler.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-226) and index.
ISBN:
0253347920
OCLC:
64486384
Publisher Number:
9780253347923

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