Approaches to Meaning in Music

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Byron Almén, Edward Pearsall
Indiana University Press, Nov 1, 2006 - Music - 256 pages

Approaches to Meaning in Music presents a survey of the problems and issues inherent in pursuing meaning and signification in music, and attempts to rectify the conundrums that have plagued philosophers, artists, and theorists since the time of Pythagoras. This collection brings together essays that reflect a variety of diverse perspectives on approaches to musical meaning. Established music theorists and musicologists cover topics including musical aspect and temporality, collage, borrowing and association, musical symbols and creative mythopoesis, the articulation of silence, the mutual interaction of cultural and music-artistic phenomena, and the analysis of gesture.

Contributors are Byron Almén, J. Peter Burkholder, Nicholas Cook, Robert S. Hatten, Patrick McCreless, Jann Pasler, and Edward Pearsall.

 

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Contents

On Imagination Interpretation and Analysis
1
From Davidovsky to Chopin and Back
11
Articulating Meaning through Silence
41
4 The Troping of Temporality in Music
62
5 A Simple Model for Associative Musical Meaning
76
Juxtaposition and the Collage Principle in Music
107
Creative Mythopoesis in Mahlers Wunderhorn Symphonies
135
Popularizing Samson et Dalila
170
References
215
Contributors
227
Index
229
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About the author (2006)

Byron Almén is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at The University of Texas at Austin and an accomplished pianist and organist.

Edward Pearsall is Assistant Professor of Music at The University of Texas at Austin and is known internationally as a performer, composer, and scholar.

Bibliographic information

TitleApproaches to Meaning in Music
Approaches to Meaning in Music
Musical Meaning and Interpretation
EditorsByron Almén, Edward Pearsall
PublisherIndiana University Press, 2006
ISBN0253112192, 9780253112194
Length256 pages
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Music / History & Criticism
Music / Instruction & Study / Theory
  
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