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Is Language a Music?: Writings on Musical Form and Signification

Is Language a Music?: Writings on Musical Form and Signification

Lidov, David

Hardcover

Series: Musical Meaning and Interpretation

LinguisticsMusic ReferenceMusic Theory

ISBN10: 0253343836
ISBN13: 9780253343833
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: Dec 1 2004
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.21
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.48 Depth: 9.42
Language: English

Is Language a Music? presents broadly ranging explorations of musical reference that address how and why language cannot be the only measure of meanings. Music, the author insists, is pervaded by significations, but often their erasure is as pertinent to artistry as their construction. This volume's 15 essays in musical semiotics are grouped into sections that treat issues in structural description, present alternative views of theoretical foundations, consider the elaboration of gestural references to form musical discourse, explore some stylistic issues in 20th-century music, and examine the resistance to reference which is esteemed in the tradition of absolute music.

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

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