Is Language a Music?
Subtitle: Writings on Musical Form and Signification (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: October 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780253343833
Subjects: Theory of music & musicology; Music; Music/Songbooks; History & Criticism - General; Linguistics; General; Music and language; Semiotics
Description: "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 fifteen 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 twentieth-century music, and examine the resistance to reference which is esteemed in the tradition of absolute music."--Jacket.