The Musical Topic
Subtitle: Hunt, Military And Pastoral (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: October 6, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780253347664
Subjects: Theory of music & musicology; Music/Songbooks; Instruction & Study - Theory; Music; History & Criticism - General; Hunting music; History and criticism; Military music
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."--Jacket.