Pleasure and meaning in the classical symphony / Melanie Lowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowe, Melanie Diane, 1969-

Series:

Musical meaning and interpretation.

Musical meaning and interpretation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Symphony.

Symphonies--Analysis, appreciation.

Symphonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Classical music permeates contemporary life. Encountered in waiting rooms, movies, and hotel lobbies as much as in the concert hall, perennial orchestral favorites mingle with commercial jingles, video-game soundtracks, and the booming bass from a passing car to form the musical soundscape of our daily lives. In this provocative and ground-breaking study, Melanie Lowe explores why the public instrumental music of late-eighteenth-century Europe has remained accessible, entertaining, and distinctly pleas

Contents:

On meanings of musical meaning

The immediacy of structural understanding

Enlightening the listening subject

Entertaining pleasure

Pleasure and meaning in Haydn's Symphony in D major, no. 93

Old entertainments, new pleasures : meanings of late-eighteenth-century public instrumental music in contemporary American culture.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-06577-7

9786612065774

0-253-00006-8

OCLC:

476156593