Speaking of music : addressing the sonorous / edited by Keith Chapin and Andrew H. Clark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chapin, Keith Moore.

Clark, Andrew Herrick, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Musical criticism.

Music and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By addressing different perspectives and traditions that form and inform the speaking of music in Western culture - musical, literary, philosophical, semiotic, political - this volume offers a snapshot of today's scholarship on speech about music.

Contents:

""contents""; ""illustrations""; ""acknowledgments""; ""Speaking of Music: A View across Disciplines and a Lexicon of Topoi ""; ""Speaking of Music ""; ""Waiting for the Death Knell: Speaking of Music (So to Speak) ""; ""Bach�s Silence, Matthe son�s Words: Professional and Humanist Ways of Speaking of Music ""; ""Making Music Speak ""; ""Rousseau: Music, Language, and Politics ""; ""Listening to Music ""; ""Mi manca la voce: How Balzac Talks Music�or How Music Takes Place�in Massimilla Doni""; ""Speaking of Music in the Romantic Era: Dynamic and Resistant Aspects of Musical Genre ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-5139-X

0-8232-5302-3

0-8232-5140-3

OCLC:

867739925