Music and Meaning / Jenefer Robinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robinson, Jenefer, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Music, Influence of.

Music and literature.

Music and language.

Symbolism in music.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 261 p. :) ill., music ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In order to promote new ways of thinking about musical meaning, this volume brings together scholars in music theory, musicology, and the philosophy of music, disciplines generally treated as separate and distinct. This interdisciplinary collaboration, while respecting differences in perspective, identifies and elaborates shared concerns.This volume focuses on the many and various kinds of meaning in music. Do musical meanings exist exclusively in internal, formal musical relations or might they also be found in the relationship between music and other areas of experience, such as action, emotion, ideas, and values? Also discussed is the vexed question why people listen to and apparently enjoy music which expresses unpleasant emotions, such as melancholy or despair. Among the particular pieces the writers discuss are Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, and Schubert's last sonata. More broadly, they consider the relation of musical meaning and interpretation to language, storytelling, drama, imagination, metaphor, and emotion.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction: New Ways of Thinking about Musical Meaning / Robinson, Jenefer

I. THE MEANINGS OF MUSIC

2. Language and the Interpretation of Music / Treitler, Leo

3. Listening with Imagination: Is Music Representational? / Walton, Kendall

4. Musical Idiosyncrasy and Perspectival Listening / Higgins, Kathleen Marie

II. MUSIC AS STORY-TELLING: THE LITERARY ANALOGY

5. Music as Drama / Maus, Fred Evereit

6. Action and Agency in Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Second Movement / Newcomb, Anthony

7. Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony and the Musical Expression of Cognitively Complex Emotions / Karl, Gregory / Robinson, Jenefer

8. What Schubert's Last Sonata Might Hold / Fisk, Charles

9. Two Types of Metaphoric Transference / Guck, Marion A.

III. EXPERIENCING MUSIC EMOTIONALLY

10. Music and Negative Emotion / Levinson, Jerrold

11. Why Listen to Sad Music If It Makes One Feel Sad? / Davies, Stephen

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781501729737

150172973X

OCLC:

1111965014