Musical meaning
Subtitle: toward a critical history
By: Lawrence Kramer.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.; Music -- History and criticism.; Subjectivity in music.; Music, Influence of.
Description: Accompanying CD includes Kramer's composition Revenants 32 variations in C Minor.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hermeneutics and musical history: a primer without rules, an exercise with Schubert; title: Hands on, lights off: the Moonlight Sonata and the birth of sex at the piano; title: Beyond words and music: an essay on songfulness; title: Franz Liszt and the virtuoso public sphere: sight and sound in the rise of mass entertainment; title: Rethinking Schumann's Carnaval: identity, meaning, and the social order; title: Glottis envy: the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera; title: Hercules' hautboys: mixed media and musical meaning; title: The voice of Persephone: musical meaning and mixed media; title: Powers of blackness: jazz and the blues in modern concert music; title: Long ride in a slow machine: the alienation effect from Weill to Shostakovich; title: Chiaroscuro: Coltrane's American songbook; title: Ghost stories: cultural memory, mourning, and the myth of originality.