Music form or meaning in music
By: Berislav Popović ; translated by Milǒs Zatkalik
Series: Ars musica
Publisher: Clio; Belgrade Culture Center
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Belgrade
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Musical form; Musical analysis; Music; Philosophy and aesthetics
Work titles: Muzička forma ili smisao u muzici
Notes: Translation of: Muzička forma ili smisao u muzici.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-373) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Fundamentals of music form. Introductory considerations ; The equivalence principle ; Musical space-time ; Music form and memory ; Energy in music; title: Musical syntax : the central part of music form. Musical language ; Musical syntax and the role of boundaries in a musical work ; Music flow and its composition ; The construction of boundaries in various compositional systems ; The musical sentence/phrase ant [sic] its construction ; Special states of motivic relations depending on the density of musical substance ; Directedness of suprasentential/supraphrasal constructions; title: Standardization processes and the origin of formal types. Autonomy of music form and learning about music ; Standard model ; the origin of formal types.