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490 1 a| Studies in history and interpretation of music ;v| v. 110;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162) and index.;

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520 a| These essays start from philosophical reflections on the "meanings" of music and then center on five examples of music about music's meanings: Handel's setting of Dryden's poem about msuic as a manifestation of God's glory as experienced by human creatures; Beethoven's mysterious revelation of the quasi-divine Order and principle manifest in an apparently trivial musical artifact originally made by a very "average" representative of the human race; Britten's collocation of a traditional public statement about war and peace, death and love, with exploration of the private experiences that give such statement substance; Penderecki's attempt to make a humanly "scientific" statement about music's meanings; and Strauss's subtle creative analysis of the relationship between literary and musical meanings, in his opera Capriccio. A postscript on the rondo from Mahler's Seventh Symphony then shifts the ground of the argument by enquiring into "the meaning of meaning" and the nature of "failure" and "success.";

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Music in search of itself : essays on music about music / David B. Greene.

Author/creator	Greene, David B.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2005.
Description	iii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Ode for St. Cecilia's Day. Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Veränderungen über einen Walzer. Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. War requiem. Penderecki, Krzysztof, 1933-2020. De natura sonoris, no. 1. Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Capriccio. Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911. Symphonies, no. 7. Musical analysis. Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Series	Studies in history and interpretation of music ; v. 110 Studies in the history and interpretation of music ; v. 110. ^A231525
Contents	The possibility of music about music. Kinds of reference and self-reference in music ; Meta-music and aesthetic experience ; The contextuality of music about music -- Hearing the possibility of music about music: five pieces. Handel's Ode for St. Cecilia's day: a celebration of the musicality of the divine ; Beethoven's Diabelli Variations: a meditation on creating ; Britten's War Requiem: an indictment of religious music ; Penderecki's "De Natura sonoris": a musical essay on the musicality of sound ; Strauss's Capriccio: an affair of musically felt words -- The need for music about music. The aesthetic consciousness and its impasses ; Music about muic and the aesthetic impasses ; Double movements in musical aesthetics of music ; Hearing the need for music about music: a reprise of five pieces -- The impossibility of music about music. Mahler's Seventh symphony and its statement on meaning in music ; Gaps in musical meaning and the impossibility of music about music ; The subjectlikeness of music ; Hearing the impossibility of music about music: the five pieces again.
Abstract	These essays start from philosophical reflections on the "meanings" of music and then center on five examples of music about music's meanings: Handel's setting of Dryden's poem about msuic as a manifestation of God's glory as experienced by human creatures; Beethoven's mysterious revelation of the quasi-divine Order and principle manifest in an apparently trivial musical artifact originally made by a very "average" representative of the human race; Britten's collocation of a traditional public statement about war and peace, death and love, with exploration of the private experiences that give such statement substance; Penderecki's attempt to make a humanly "scientific" statement about music's meanings; and Strauss's subtle creative analysis of the relationship between literary and musical meanings, in his opera Capriccio. A postscript on the rondo from Mahler's Seventh Symphony then shifts the ground of the argument by enquiring into "the meaning of meaning" and the nature of "failure" and "success."
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162) and index.
LCCN	2004056507
ISBN	0773463356

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