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Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert

Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert

Hatten, Robert S.

Hardcover

Series: Musical Meaning and Interpretation

Classical MusicMusic ReferenceMusic Theory

ISBN10: 025334459X
ISBN13: 9780253344595
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Nov 22 2004
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.61
Height: 1.23 Width: 6.42 Depth: 9.72
Language: English

Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions of musical meaning. . . . [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them are timely and to the point. Musical scholars in both musicology and theory will find much of value here, and will find their notions of musical meaning challenged and expanded. --Patrick McCreless

This book continues to develop the semiotic theory of musical meaning presented in Robert S. Hatten's first book, Musical Meaning in Beethoven (IUP, 1994). In addition to expanding theories of markedness, topics, and tropes, Hatten offers a fresh contribution to the understanding of musical gestures, as grounded in biological, psychological, cultural, and music-stylistic competencies. By focusing on gestures, topics, tropes, and their interaction in the music of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, Hatten demonstrates the power and elegance of synthetic structures and emergent meanings within a changing Viennese Classical style.

Musical Meaning and Interpretation--Robert S. Hatten, editor

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