num_pages: 304
description: The Musical Topic discusses three tropes prominently featured in Western European music: the hunt, the military, and the pastoral. Raymond Monelle provides an in-depth cultural and historical study of musical topics--short melodic figures, harmonic or rhythmic formulae carrying literal or lexical meaning--through consideration of their origin, thematization, manifestation, and meaning. The Musical Topic shows the connections of musical meaning to literature, social history, and the fine arts.
language: English
title: The Musical Topic: Hunt, Military and Pastoral
titlecomplete: The Musical Topic: Hunt, Military and Pastoral (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Indiana University Press