David Lidov

Is Language a Music?

Writings on Musical Form and Signification

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Musical Meaning and Interpretation-Robert S. Hatten, editor

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 167mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 541g
• ISBN-13: 9780253343833
• ISBN-10: 0253343836
• Artikelnr.: 14092318

Autorenporträt

David Lidov is a composer whose theoretical investigations were an early and influential source of the musical semiotics movement of recent decades. He teaches at York University in Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
1. Prelude-Is Language a Music?
Part I. Structuralist Pespectives-Introduction
2. Structure and Function in Repetition.
3. The Allegretto of Beethoven's Seventh.
4. Mediation as a Formal Principle in Music: Three Examples.
Part II. Semiotic Polemics-Introduction
5. Nattiez's Fondements.
6. Our Time with Druids.
7. Why We Still Need Peirce.
Part III. From Gestures to Discourses-Introduction
8. Mind and Body in Music.
9. Opera Operta: Realism and Rehabilitation in La Traviata
10. A Monument in Song: Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee by Beverley (Buffy)
St. Marie.
Part IV. The Messages of Methods-Introduction
11. Bartok the Progessive.
12. The Art of Music Theory and the Aesthetic Category of the Possible
13. Technique and Signification in the Twelve-Tone Method
14. The Project of Abstraction in Painting and Music.
Part V. Resisting Representation-Introduction
15. Replaying my Voice Mail
Notes
References
Index