Approaches to meaning in music / edited by Byron Almén and Edward Pearsall.

Other author Almén, Byron, 1968- editor, contributor.
Other author Pearsall, Edward, 1954- editor, contributor.
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006.
Description239 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music--Semiotics.
Musical analysis.

SeriesMusical meaning and interpretation
Musical meaning and interpretation. ^A589150
Contents The divining rod: on imagination, interpretation, and analysis / Edward Pearsall and Byron Almén -- Anatomy of a gesture: from Davidovsky to Chopin and back / Patrick McCreless -- Anti-teleological art: articulating meaning through silence / Edward Pearsall -- The troping of temporality in music / Robert S. Hatten -- A simple model for associative musical meaning / J. Peter Burkholder -- Uncanny moments: juxtaposition and the collage principle in music / Nicholas Cook -- The sacrificed hero: creative mythopoesis in Mahler's Wunderhorn symphonies / Byron Almén -- Contingencies of meaning in transcriptions and excerpts: popularizing Samson et Dalila / Jann Pasler.
Abstract This book presents a survey of the problems and issues inherent in pursuing meaning and signification in music, and attempts to rectify the conundrums that have plagued philosophers, artists, and theorists since the time of Pythagoras. This collection brings together essays that reflect a variety of diverse perspectives on approaches to musical meaning. Established music theorists and musicologists cover topics including musical aspect and temporality, collage, borrowing and association, musical symbols and creative mythopoesis, the articulation of silence, the mutual interaction of cultural and music-artistic phenomena, and the analysis of gesture.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index.
LCCN 2006006217
ISBN0253347920 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780253347923