The Musical Topic
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-34766-4 (ISBN)
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.
Raymond Monelle was formerly Reader in Music at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he is now an Honorary Fellow. His work on music theory and semiotics is internationally known. His books include Linguistics and Semiotics in Music and The Sense of Music. He has been a composer, pianist, and conductor, and writes music criticism for The Independent, Opera magazine, and other publications.
Contents> List of Plates Preface Note on Titles of Musical Works Part One: Topic Theory 1. Topic and Expression 2. The Literary Source of Topic Theory 3. Signifier and Signified in Music Part Two: Huntsmen 4. Signifier: The Hunting Horn 5. Signified: Hunts Noble and Ignoble 6. Musical Hunts 7. The Topic Established Part Three: Soldiers 8. The Military Signifier: 1. The March 9. The Military Signifier: 2. The Military Trumpet and Its Players 10. The Military Signified 11. The Soldier Represented Part Four: Shepherds 12. The Pastoral Signified: The Myth 13. The Pastoral Signifier 14. The Pastoral in Music 15. New Pastorals 16. Epilogue Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography Index
Zusatzinfo | 20 b&w illus., 174 music exx. |
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Verlagsort | Bloomington, IN |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
ISBN-10 | 0-253-34766-1 / 0253347661 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-34766-4 / 9780253347664 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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