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The Sense of Music

Semiotic Essays

By: Raymond Monelle

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The fictional Dr. Strabismus sets out to write a new comprehensive theory of music. But music's tendency to deconstruct itself combined with the complexities of postmodernism doom him to failure. This is the parable that frames The Sense of Music, a novel treatment of music theory that reinterprets the modern history of Western music in the terms of semiotics. Based on the assumption that music cannot be described without reference to its meaning, Raymond Monelle proposes that works of the Western classical tradition be analyzed in terms of temporality, subjectivity, and topic theory. Critical of the abstract analysis of musical scores, Monelle argues that the score does not reveal music's sense. That sense--what a piece of music says and signifies--can be understood only with reference to history, culture, and the other arts. Thus, music is meaningful in that it signifies cultural temporalities and themes, from the traditional manly heroism of the hunt to military power to postmodern "polyvocality." This theoretical innovation allows Monelle to describe how the Classical style of the eighteenth century--which he reads as a balance of lyric and progressive time--gave way to the Romantic need for emotional realism. He argues that irony and ambiguity subsequently eroded the domination of personal emotion in Western music as well as literature, killing the composer's subjectivity with that of the author. This leaves Dr. Strabismus suffering from the postmodern condition, and Raymond Monelle with an exciting, controversial new approach to understanding music and its history.

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Princeton University Press

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1400824036

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9781400824038

Linguistics and Semiotics in Music

By: Raymond Monelle

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Linguistics and Semiotics in Music

By: Raymond Monelle

This handbook for advanced students explains the various applications to music of methods derived from linguistics and semiotics. The book is aimed at musicians familiar with the ordinary range of aesthetic and theoretical ideas in music; no specialized knowledge of linguistic or semiotic terminology is necessary. In the two introductory chapters, semiotics is related to the tradition of music aesthetics and to well-known works like Deryck Cooke's The Language of Music, and the methods of linguistics are explained in language intelligible to musicians. There is no limitation to one school or tradition; linguistic applications not avowedly semiotic, and semiotic theories not connected with linguistics, are all included. The book gives clear and simple descriptions with ample diagrams and music examples of the 'neutral level', 'semiotic analysis', transformation and generation, structural semantics and narrative grammar, intonation theory, the ideas of C.S. Peirce, and applications in ethnomusicology.

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Routledge

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1134346735

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Linguistics and Semiotics in Music

By: Raymond Monelle

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Linguistics and Semiotics in Music

By: Raymond Monelle

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1134346662

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The Sense of Music

Semiotic Essays

By: Raymond Monelle

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Semiotic Essays

By: Raymond Monelle

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The Musical Topic

Hunt, Military and Pastoral

By: Raymond Monelle

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The Musical Topic

Hunt, Military and Pastoral

By: Raymond Monelle

The Musical Topic discusses three tropes prominently featured in Western European music: the hunt, the military, and the pastoral. Raymond Monelle provides an in-depth cultural and historical study of musical topics -- short melodic figures, harmonic or rhythmic formulae carrying literal or lexical meaning -- through consideration of their origin, thematization, manifestation, and meaning. The Musical Topic shows the connections of musical meaning to literature, social history, and the fine arts.

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Indiana University Press

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0253112362

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Making Light

Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism

By: Raymond Knapp

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Making Light

Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism

By: Raymond Knapp

In Making Light Raymond Knapp traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth century. Knapp identifies in Haydn and in early popular American musical cultures such as minstrelsy and operetta a strain of high camp—a mode of engagement that relishes both the superficial and serious aspects of an aesthetic experience—that runs antithetical to German Idealism's musical paradigms. By considering the disservice done to Haydn by German Idealism alongside the emergence of musical camp in American popular music, Knapp outlines a common ground: a humanistically based aesthetic of shared pleasure that points to ways in which camp receptive modes might rejuvenate the original appeal of Haydn's music that has mostly eluded audiences. In so doing, Knapp remaps the historiographical modes and systems of critical evaluation that dominate musicology while troubling the divide between serious and popular music.

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Duke University Press

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0822372401

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9780822372400

Symphonic Metamorphoses

Subjectivity and Alienation in Mahler's Re-cycled Songs

By: Raymond Knapp

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Symphonic Metamorphoses

Subjectivity and Alienation in Mahler's Re-cycled Songs

By: Raymond Knapp

An intimate investigation of Mahler's distinctive voice.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819566365

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Music Semiotics

A Network of Significations in Honour and Memory of Raymond Monelle

By: Esti Sheinberg

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Music Semiotics

A Network of Significations in Honour and Memory of Raymond Monelle

By: Esti Sheinberg

An international group of contributors, including leading authorities on music and culture, come together in this volume to investigate different ways in which music signifies.Looking at the nature of musical texts and music's narrativity, a number of the essays in this collection delve into the relationship between music and philosophy, literature, poetry, folk traditions and the theatre, with opera a genre that particularly lends itself to this mode of investigation. Other contributions look at theories of musical markedness, metaphor and irony. Musical works discussed include those by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, Stravinsky, Bartók, Xenakis, Kutavicius and John Adams.

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376

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409411028

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9781409411024

Italian Opera Since 1945

By: Raymond Fearn

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Italian Opera Since 1945

By: Raymond Fearn

First published in 1988. Italy, the birthplace of opera in the late sixteenth century, has in recent decades seen remarkable and vital musical growth, with composers as diverse as Luciano Berio and Nino Rota, Luigi Nono and Sylvano Bussotti, Giacomo Manzoni, Bruno Maderna and Salvatore Sciarrino. The musical theatre has figured prominently in the work of Italian composers during this period, ranging from operas conceived in a traditional mode to works of a Music Theatre variety, and in style from popular to avant-garde. In this book Raymond Fearn surveys this Italian musico-theatrical phenomenon in the period since the Second World War, examining a wide range of works such as Nono's Intolleranza and Al Gran Sole Carico d'Amore, Berio's Passaggio and Un re in ascolto, Manzoni's Atomtod and La Sentenza and Castiglioni's Oberon and The King's Masque, and places these developments within a cultural and theatrical context

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Routledge

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113441918X

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A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953)

By: Raymond Borde,Etienne Chaumeton

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A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953)

By: Raymond Borde,Etienne Chaumeton

This first book published on film noir established the genre--a classic, at last in translation.

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City Lights Books

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087286412X

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9780872864122

The Musical Topic

Hunt, Military and Pastoral

By: Raymond Monelle

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The Musical Topic

Hunt, Military and Pastoral

By: Raymond Monelle

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Indiana University Press

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The Sense of Music

The Sense of Music

Linguistics and Semiotics in Music

Linguistics and Semiotics in Music

Linguistics and Semiotics in Music

Linguistics and Semiotics in Music

The Sense of Music

The Sense of Music

The Musical Topic

The Musical Topic

Making Light

Making Light

Symphonic Metamorphoses

Symphonic Metamorphoses

Music Semiotics

Music Semiotics

Italian Opera Since 1945

Italian Opera Since 1945

A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953)

A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953)

The Musical Topic

The Musical Topic

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