Playing with Signs : : A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music / / V. Kofi Agawu.
Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyze the so-called Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this condition. Playing with Signs proposes a listene...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (168 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ONE. Introduction
- TWO. Extroversive Semiosis: Topics as Signs
- THREE. Introversive Semiosis: The Beginning-Middle-End Paradigm
- FOUR. A Semiotic Interpretation of the First Movement of Mozart's String Quintet in C Major, K. 515
- FIVE. A Semiotic Interpretation of the First Movement of Haydn's String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2
- SIX. A Semiotic Interpretation of the First Movement of Beethoven's String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132
- SEVEN. Toward a Semiotic Theory for the Interpretation of Classic Music
- EIGHT. Epilogue: A Semiotic Interpretation of Romantic Music
- REFERENCES
- INDEX