Musical Meaning

Lawrence Kramer, Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University, is an award-winning composer and the author of fifteen previous books, including The Thought of Music, which won the 2017 ASACP Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism, and most recently, The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening.

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Introduction. Sounding Out: Musical Meaning and Modern Experience
1. Hermeneutics and Musical History: A Primer without Rules, an Exercise with Schubert
2. Hands On, Lights Off: The "Moonlight" Sonata and the Birth of Sex at the Piano
3. Beyond Words and Music: An Essay on Songfulness
4. Franz Liszt and the Virtuoso Public Sphere: Sight and Sound in the Rise of Mass Entertainment 
5. Rethinking Schumann’s Carnaval: Identity, Meaning, and the Social Order 
6. Glottis Envy: The Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera
7. Hercules' Hautboys: Mixed Media and Musical Meaning 
8. The Voice of Persephone: Musical Meaning and Mixed Media 
9. Powers of Blackness: Jazz and the Blues in Modern Concert Music
10. Long Ride in a Slow Machine: The Alienation Effect from Weill to Shostakovich
11. Chiaroscuro: Coltrane’s American Songbook
12. Ghost Stories: Cultural Memory, Mourning, and the Myth of Originality

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