Wordless Rhetoric : : Musical Form and the Metaphor of the Oration / / Mark Evan Bonds.

Although “form” is one of the most commonly used terms in music interpretation, it remains one of the most ambiguous. This penetrating study explores evolving ideas of musical form from a historical perspective and sheds new light on current conceptualizations of music.Mark Evan Bonds examines the i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Art & Architecture eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1991
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2013
Language:English
Series:Studies in the History of Music ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (237 p.) :; 24 line illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • INTRODUCTION. Musical Form and Metaphor
  • CHAPTER 1. The Paradox of Musical Form
  • CHAPTER 2. Rhetoric and the Concept of Musical Form in the Eighteenth Century
  • CHAPTER 3. Continuity and Change in Later Metaphors of Form
  • CHAPTER 4. Rhetoric and the Autonomy of Instrumental Music
  • CHAPTER 5. Rhetoric and the Role of the Listener in the Analysis of Large-Scale Form
  • Originals of Quotations Given in Translation
  • Index