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Approaches to meaning in music [electronic resource] / edited by Byron Almén and Edward Pearsall.

Contributor(s): Almen, Byron, 1968- [edt, ctb] | Pearsall, Edward, 1954- [edt, ctb] | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Musical meaning and interpretation: Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006Description: 239 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics | Music -- Semiotics | Musical analysisGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 781.1/7 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The divining rod : on imagination, interpretation, and analysis / Edward Pearsall and Byron Almén -- Anatomy of a gesture : from Davidovsky to Chopin and back / Patrick McCreless -- Anti-teleological art : articulating meaning through silence / Edward Pearsall -- The troping of temporality in music / Robert S. Hatten -- A simple model for associative musical meaning / J. Peter Burkholder -- Uncanny moments : juxtaposition and the collage principle in music / Nicholas Cook -- The sacrificed hero : creative mythopoesis in Mahler's Wunderhorn symphonies / Byron Almén -- Contingencies of meaning in transcriptions and excerpts : popularizing Samson et Dalila / Jann Pasler.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-226) and index.

The divining rod : on imagination, interpretation, and analysis / Edward Pearsall and Byron Almén -- Anatomy of a gesture : from Davidovsky to Chopin and back / Patrick McCreless -- Anti-teleological art : articulating meaning through silence / Edward Pearsall -- The troping of temporality in music / Robert S. Hatten -- A simple model for associative musical meaning / J. Peter Burkholder -- Uncanny moments : juxtaposition and the collage principle in music / Nicholas Cook -- The sacrificed hero : creative mythopoesis in Mahler's Wunderhorn symphonies / Byron Almén -- Contingencies of meaning in transcriptions and excerpts : popularizing Samson et Dalila / Jann Pasler.

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