Communication in eighteenth-century music / edited by Danuta Mirka and Kofi Agawu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mirka, Danuta.

Agawu, V. Kofi (Victor Kofi)

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--18th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Communication in music.

Physical Description:

ix, 345 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Communication in 18th-century music

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Contents:

Communication and the market.

Part I : Communication and verisimilitude in the eighteenth century / Paul Cobley

Listening to listeners / Mark Evan Bonds

Mannichfaltige Abweichungen von der gewohnlichen Sonaten-form : Beethoven's 'piano-solo' op. 31 no. 1 and the challenge of communication / Claudia Maurer Zenck

Part II : Musical grammar

Metre, phrase structure and manipulations of musical beginnings / Danuta Mirka

National metrical types in music of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / William Rothstein

Schoenberg's 'second melody', or, 'Meyer-ed' in the bass / William E. Caplin

Part III : Rhetorical form and topical decorum

A metaphoric model of sonata form : two expositions by Mozart / Michael Spitzer

Beethoven's op. 18 no. 3, first movement : two readings, with a comment on analysis / Kofi Agawu

Mozart's K331, first movement : once more, with feeling / Wye J. Allanbrook

Dance topoi, sonic analogs and musical grammar : communicating with music in the eighteenth century / Lawrence M. Zbikowski.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [318]-334) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780521888295

0521888298

OCLC:

189668112

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