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Musical Meaning
Author | : Lawrence Kramer |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780520382978 |
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Ranging widely over classical music, jazz, popular music, and film and television music, Musical Meaning uncovers the historical importance of asking about meaning in the lived experience of musical works, styles, and performances. Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of new resources for understanding music. In this accessible and eloquently written book, he argues boldly that humanistic, not just technical, meaning is a basic force in music history and an indispensable factor in how, where, and when music is heard. He demonstrates that thinking about music can become a vital means of thinking about general questions of meaning, subjectivity, and value. First published in 2001, Musical Meaning anticipates many of the musicological topics of today, including race, performance, embodiment, and media. In addition, Kramer explores music itself as a source of understanding via his composition Revenants for piano, revised for this edition and available on the UC Press website.
Musical Meaning in Beethoven
Author | : Robert S. Hatten |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2004-10-20 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0253217113 |
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Award-winning examination of Beethoven's music.
Music and Meaning
Author | : Jenefer Robinson |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2018-09-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781501729737 |
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In order to promote new ways of thinking about musical meaning, this volume brings together scholars in music theory, musicology, and the philosophy of music, disciplines generally treated as separate and distinct. This interdisciplinary collaboration, while respecting differences in perspective, identifies and elaborates shared concerns. This volume focuses on the many and various kinds of meaning in music. Do musical meanings exist exclusively in internal, formal musical relations or might they also be found in the relationship between music and other areas of experience, such as action, emotion, ideas, and values? Also discussed is the vexed question why people listen to and apparently enjoy music which expresses unpleasant emotions, such as melancholy or despair. Among the particular pieces the writers discuss are Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, and Schubert's last sonata. More broadly, they consider the relation of musical meaning and interpretation to language, storytelling, drama, imagination, metaphor, and emotion.
Musical Meaning and Expression
Author | : Stephen Davies |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0801481511 |
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We talk not only of enjoying music, but of understanding it. Music is often taken to have expressive import--and in that sense to have meaning. But what does music mean, and how does it mean? Stephen Davies addresses these questions in this sophisticated and knowledgeable overview of current theories in the philosophy of music. Reviewing and criticizing the aesthetic positions of recent years, he offers a spirited explanation of his own position. Davies considers and rejects in turn the positions that music describes (like language), or depicts (like pictures), or symbolizes (in a distinctive fashion) emotions. Similarly, he resists the idea that music's expressiveness is to be explained solely as the composer's self-expression, or in terms of its power to evoke a response from the audience. Music's ability to describe emotions, he believes, is located within the music itself; it presents the aural appearance of what he calls emotion characteristics. The expressive power of music awakens emotions in the listener, and music is valued for this power although the responses are sometimes ones of sadness. Davies shows that appreciation and understanding may require more than recognition of and reaction to music's expressive character, but need not depend on formal musicological training.
Approaches to Meaning in Music
Author | : Byron Almén,Edward Pearsall |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2006-11-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780253112194 |
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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.
Layers of Musical Meaning
Author | : Finn Egeland Hansen |
Publsiher | : Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 8763504243 |
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This book is a radical attempt to explain musical meaning as the complex fabric of tension and relaxation resulting from the courses of the individual musical elements: e.g. rhythm, where the musical tension manifests itself by the opposition between strong and weak beats - or harmony, where the chords of the tonal cadence generate courses of tension and relaxation. It is strongly emphasized that the total structure of contributors to the web of tension/relaxation, in short, the musical style, is constantly changing, and it is an error to believe that any musical way of articulation is eternal: new ways of expression arrive and others drop out gradually - precisely as with ordinary language. This consideration, however, implies that too many and radical changes over a short period of time are foredoomed to go over the head of the ordinary listener. The radical modernism of the 1950s illustrates how composers in their endeavour to wipe the slate clean in order to start from scratch largely failed. Attempts at semantic interpretations of music are rejected. Such interpretations belong to the private sphere and cannot be scholarly supported. No hermeneutic interpretation, however elaborate, can claim higher truth value than another.
Musical Sense and Musical Meaning
Author | : Meki Nzewi,Israel Anyahuru,Tom Ohiaraumunna |
Publsiher | : Rozenberg Publishers |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Folk music |
ISBN | : 9789051709087 |
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Reflections on Musical Meaning and Its Representations
Author | : Leo Treitler |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2011-09-07 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780253223166 |
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How is it possible to talk or write about music? What is the link between graphic signs and music? What makes music meaningful? In this book, distinguished scholar Leo Treitler explores the relationships among language, musical notation, performance, compositional practice, and patterns of culture in the presentation and representation of music. Treitler engages a wide variety of historical sources to discuss works from medieval plainchant to Berg's opera Lulu and a range of music in between.