Speaking of Music : : Addressing the Sonorous / / ed. by Andrew H. Clark, Keith Chapin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Brandt, Per Aage,; Chapin, Keith,; Clark, Andrew H.,; Gelbart, Matthew,; Hamilton, John T.,; Kramer, Lawrence,; Maas, Sander van,; Moreno, Jairo,; Nancy, Jean-Luc,; Odello, Laura,; Strong, Tracy B.,; Szendy, Peter,; Wurth, Kiene Brillenburg,; Zbikowski, Lawrence M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Chapin, Keith,; Clark, Andrew H.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 11 Illustrations, black and white

People chat about music every day, but they also treat it as a limit, as the boundary of what is sayable. By addressing different perspectives and traditions that form and inform the speaking of music in Western culture—musical, literary, philosophical, semiotic, political—this volume offers a uniqu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Speaking of Music: A View across Disciplines and a Lexicon of Topoi
• Speaking of Music
• Waiting for the Death Knell: Speaking of Music (So to Speak)
• Bach’s Silence, Matthe son’s Words: Professional and Humanist Ways of Speaking of Music
• Making Music Speak
• Rousseau: Music, Language, and Politics
• Listening to Music
• Mi manca la voce: How Balzac Talks Music—or How Music Takes Place—in Massimilla Doni
• Speaking of Music in the Romantic Era: Dynamic and Resistant Aspects of Musical Genre
• Weather Reports: Discourse and Musical Cognition
• Messiaen, Deleuze, and the Birds of Proclamation
• Parole, parole: Tautegory and the Musicology of the (Pop) Song
• Speaking of Microsound: The Bodies of Henri Chopin
• On the Ethics of the Unspeakable
• Récit Recitation Recitative
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index