Playing with Signs a Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music

Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyze the so-called Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this condition. Playing with Signs proposes a listene...

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Autor principal: Agawu, V. Kofi (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2014.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Princeton Legacy Library.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario:Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyze the so-called Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this condition. Playing with Signs proposes a listener-oriented theory of Classic instrumental music that encompasses its two most fundamental communicative dimensions: expression and structure. Units of expression, defined in reference to topoi, are shown here to interact with, confront, and merge into units of structure, defined in terms of the r.
Descripción Física:167 p.
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781400861835