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Music in Search of Itself : Essays on Music About Music.
Many contemporary composers and music critics say in an offhand way that all music written in the past quarter century is about music--that it is reflexive and self-referential in some significant sense. It is music in search of an understanding of itself. This book tries to deepen the understanding...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewiston :
Edwin Mellen Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Studies in History & Interpretation S.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter One: The Possibility of Music about Music; 1. Kinds of Refrences and Self-Refrence in Music; i. Repetition without Reference; ii. Repetition and Self-Reference; iii. Repetition and Emotional Reference; iv. Repetition, Reference and Hearing Music as a Category; v. Repetition, Reference and the Critque of the Listening Experience; vi. Repetition, Reference, and the Critique of the Category of Art; 2. Music and Reference by Methaphorical Exemplification.
- Chapter Two: Hearing the Possibility of Music about Music: Five Pieces1. Handel's Ode for St. Cecila's Day. A Celebration of the Musicality of the Divine; 2. Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. A Meditation on Creating; 3. Britten's War Requiem. An Indictment of Religious Music; 4. Penderecki's "De Natura sonoris". A Musical Essay on the Musicality of Sound; 5. Strauss's Capriccio. An Affair of Musically Felt Words; Chapter Three: The Need for Music about Music; 1. The Aesthetic Consciousness and Its Impasses; 2. Music about Music and the Aesthetic Impasses.
- 3. Double Movements in Musical Aesthetics of Music4. Hearing the Need for Music about Music. A Reprise of Five Pieces.; Chapter Four: The Impossibility of Music about Music; 1. Mahler's Seventh Symphony and It's Statement on Meaning in Music; 2. Gaps in Musical Meaning and the Impossibility of Music about Music; 3. The Subjectlikeness of Music; 4. Hearing the Impossibility about Music. The Five Pieces Again; Bibliography; Index.