Music and Meaning /

Music and Meaning / / ed. by Jenefer Robinson.

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, id...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Davies, Stephen,
Fisk, Charles,
Guck, Marion A.,
Higgins, Kathleen Marie,
Karl, Gregory,
Levinson, Jerrold,
Maus, Fred Evereit,
Newcomb, Anthony,
Robinson, Jenefer,
Treitler, Leo,
Walton, Kendall,
HerausgeberIn:
Robinson, Jenefer,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1997
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 18 pages of musical examples; 1 drawing; 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: New Ways of Thinking about Musical Meaning
  • I. THE MEANINGS OF MUSIC
  • 2. Language and the Interpretation of Music
  • 3. Listening with Imagination: Is Music Representational?
  • 4. Musical Idiosyncrasy and Perspectival Listening
  • II. MUSIC AS STORY-TELLING: THE LITERARY ANALOGY
  • 5. Music as Drama
  • 6. Action and Agency in Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Second Movement
  • 7. Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony and the Musical Expression of Cognitively Complex Emotions
  • 8. What Schubert's Last Sonata Might Hold
  • 9. Two Types of Metaphoric Transference
  • III. EXPERIENCING MUSIC EMOTIONALLY
  • 10. Music and Negative Emotion
  • 11. Why Listen to Sad Music If It Makes One Feel Sad?
  • Index

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