Music semiotics
Subtitle: a network of significations in honour and memory of Raymond Monelle
By: edited by Esti Sheinberg
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781409411024
Subjects: Music; Semiotics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Esti Sheinberg; title: The universe of musical meaning. The sense of music / Christine Esclapez ; How did music rise to philosophical eminence? (and how has it been deprived of it?) / Bálint Veres ; Between the field and the salon / Marina Ritzarev ; The significance of musical rules : a summary of selected principles of organization / Dalia Cohen ; Bakhtin and the ends of music / Anthony Gritten; title: Texts : narrativities and intermodalities. Cycling song : the Wilhelm Meister collections / William Dougherty ; On metaphor and syntactic troping in music / Robert Hatten ; Fanny Mendelssohn's cantata Hiob : a transpersonal commentary on divine darkness / Edith Zack; title: The 'preludio' of the four orchestral pieces, op. 12 by Béla Bartók : an intertextual analytical approach / Márta Grabócz ; Semiotic analysis and computational modelling : two case studies on works by Debussy and Xenakis / Christina Anagnostopoulou and Emilios Cambouropoulos; title: Networks : who signals what (and, of course, how)? Time, subjectivity and contested signs : developing Monelle's application of Peirce's 1903 typology to music / Ben Curry ; Reflections on musical topics and musical character in performance / David Lidov ; Against reproduction / Nicholas Cook ; Dramatic signification of the Grail knights' choruses of Parsifal by Richard Wagner / Anne Sivuoja ; Realism and artifice : innovation, Wagner's Ring, and theatre practice in the German Democratic Republic / Elaine Kelly; title: The musical topic : beyond conventions. The topic of emotion / Michael Spitzer ; Parody of learned style / Tamara Balter ; Ironic inflections of topics : Beethoven's quartet op. 127 / Jamie Liddle ; Dysphoric states : Stravinsky's topics Huntsmen, soldiers and shepherds / Nicholas McKay ; Counting down time : musical topics in John Adams' Doctor atomic / Yayoi Uno Everett ; 'Cet amour si violent; title: ' : on some topical motives in contemporary Lithuanian music / Rūta Stanevičiūtė.