Is Language a Music?: Writings on Musical Form and Signification (Musical Meaning and Interpretation) - Hardcover

Lidov, David

 
9780253343833: Is Language a Music?: Writings on Musical Form and Signification (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0253343836 ISBN 13: 9780253343833
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Is Language a Music? presents broadly ranging explorations of musical reference that address how and why language cannot be the only measure of meanings. Music, the author insists, is pervaded by significations, but often their erasure is as pertinent to artistry as their construction. This volume's 15 essays in musical semiotics are grouped into sections that treat issues in structural description, present alternative views of theoretical foundations, consider the elaboration of gestural references to form musical discourse, explore some stylistic issues in 20th-century music, and examine the resistance to reference which is esteemed in the tradition of absolute music.

Musical Meaning and Interpretation―Robert S. Hatten, editor

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About the Author

David Lidov is a composer whose theoretical investigations were an early and influential source of the musical semiotics movement of recent decades. He teaches at York University in Toronto.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0253343836
ISBN 13 
9780253343833
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
272