The Routledge handbook of music signification / edited by Esti Sheinberg and William P. Dougherty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sheinberg, Esti, 1954- editor.

Dougherty, William Patrick, 1956- editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks.

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Semiotics.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 406 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2020]

Summary:

"The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification captures the richness and complexity of the field, presenting 30 essays by recognized international experts that reflect current interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to the subject. Examinations of music signification have been an essential component in thinking about music for millennia, but it is only in the last few decades that music signification has been established as an independent area of study. During this time, the field has grown exponentially, incorporating a vast array of methodologies that seek to ground how music means and to explore what it may mean. Research in music signification typically embraces concepts and practices imported from semiotics, literary criticism, linguistics, the visual arts, philosophy, sociology, history, and psychology, among others. By bringing together such approaches in transparent groupings that reflect the various contexts in which music is created and experienced, and by encouraging critical dialogues, this volume provides an authoritative survey of the discipline and a significant advance in inquiries into music signification. This book addresses a wide array of readers, from scholars who specialize in this and related areas to the general reader who is curious to learn more about the ways in which music makes sense"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of musical examples

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: Music signification and philosophy

1. "Musik ist das nicht": On Romantic incomprehensibility in Chopin

2. From semio-ethics to a semiotics of speech in music and musicology: Theoretical (and Utopian) projections

3. Music and reality

4. From Ursatz to Urzemic: Avenues for theories and analyses of music signification

PART II: Music signification and semiotics

5. The musical signifier

6. Barthes's "The Grain of the Voice" revisited

7. Britten and Stravinsky's neoclassical operas: Signs, signification, and subjectivity

8. Fundamental concepts for the semiotic interpretation of musical meaning: A personal journey

PART III: Music signification and topic theory

9. Patterns and topics as elements of signification in late eighteenth-century music

10. "Mad day" and the "march of Bacchus": Figaro in Mahler's Third Symphony

11. Topics and stylistic register in Russian opera, 1775-1800

12. She spins and she sighs: The spinning-wheel topic and the lamentation of the romantic female

13. Charles Griffes's Xanadu: A musical garden of opposites

PART IV: Music signification and narrative

14. Music narrative: Theory, context, subjectivity

15. Motivic linkage and actantial pairing in Britten's operas

16. The narrative rhetoric of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

17. From music signification to musical narrativity: Concepts and analyses

PART V: Music signification and society

18. Musical vernaculars and their signifying transformations

19. Multimodal reinforcement and worlds of sense: A political approach to musical emotions.

20. Reading meaning in and out of music from Theresienstadt: The case of Pavel Haas

21. FKA twigs and popular music signification: The challenge of fluid clarity

22. Lost innocence: Signifying East, signifying West

PART VI: Music signification and emotion, cognition, and embodiment

23. Four flavors of pre-modern emotion

24. Music as experience: Musical sense-making between step-by-step processing and synoptic overview

25. Melody as representation

PART VII: Music signification and education

26. Musical semiosis as a process of learning and growth

27. A pragmatic map of music signification for music analysis courses

PART VIII: Music signification and intermediality

28. The operatic principle: Negotiating contradictory demands of signification

29. Pianto as a topical signifier of grief in contemporary operas by John Adams, Thomas Adès, and Kaija Saariaho

30. Musical ekphrasis: The evolution of the concept and the breadth of its application

Bibliography

Index of names

Index of terms and concepts.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-23751-9

1-351-23753-5

9781351237536

OCLC:

1145562341