Research Catalog

Title

The Routledge handbook of music signification / edited by Esti Sheinberg and William P. Dougherty.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.

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Additional Authors

• Sheinberg, Esti, 1954-
• Dougherty, William Patrick, 1956-

Description

xix, 406 pages : illustrations (black and white), music; 26 cm.

Summary

"The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification captures the richness and complexity of the field, presenting 30 essays by recognized international experts that reflect current interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to the subject. Examinations of music signification have been an essential component in thinking about music for millennia, but it is only in the last few decades that music signification has been established as an independent area of study. During this time, the field has grown exponentially, incorporating a vast array of methodologies that seek to ground how music means and to explore what it may mean. Research in music signification typically embraces concepts and practices imported from semiotics, literary criticism, linguistics, the visual arts, philosophy, sociology, history, and psychology, among others. By bringing together such approaches in transparent groupings that reflect the various contexts in which music is created and experienced, and by encouraging critical dialogues, this volume provides an authoritative survey of the discipline and a significant advance in inquiries into music signification. This book addresses a wide array of readers, from scholars who specialize in this and related areas to the general reader who is curious to learn more about the ways in which music makes sense"--

Series Statement

Routledge handbooks

Uniform Title

Routledge handbooks.

Subject

• Music > Semiotics
• Narrative in music
• Music > Social aspects
• Music > Psychological aspects
• Music > Philosophy and aesthetics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-387) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Esti Sheinberg and William P. Dougherty -- Part I, Music signification and philosophy. "Musik is das nicht" : on Romantic incomprehensibility in Chopin / Jamie Liddle. From semio-ethics to a semiotics of speech in music and musicology : theoretical (and Utopian) projections / Christine Esclapez. Music and reality / Ben Curry. From Ursatz to Urzemic : avenues for theories and analyses of music signification / Eero Tarasti -- Part II, Music signification and semiotics. The musical signifier / Lawrence Kramer. Barthes's "The grain of the voice" revisited / Anne Kauppala. Britten and Stravinsky's neoclassical operas : signs, signification, and subjectivity / Nicholas P. McKay. Fundamental concepts for the semiotic interpretation of musical meaning : a personal journey / Robert S. Hatten -- Part III, Music signification and topic theory. Patterns and topics as elements of signification in late eigtheenth-century music / Lauri Suurpää. "Mad day" and the "arch of Bacchus" : Figaro in Mahler's Third symphony / Lóránt Péteri. Topics and stylistic register in Russian opera, 1775-1800 / Johanna Frymoyer. She spins and she sighs : the spinning-wheel topic and the lamentation of the romantic female / Chia-Yi Wu. Charles Griffes's Xanadu : a musical garden of opposites / Taylor A. Greer -- Part IV, Music signification and narrative. Music narrative : theory, context, subjectivity / Byron Almén. Motivic linkage and actantial pairing in Britten's operas / Michael Baker. The narrative rhetoric of Beethoven's Fifth symphony / Anatole Leikin. From music signification to musical narrativity : concepts and analyses / Márta Grabócz -- Part V, Music signification and society. Musical vernaculars and their signifying transformations / Marina Ritzarev. Multimodal reinforcement and worlds of sense : a political approach to musical emotions / Oscar Hernández Salgar. Reading meaning in and out of music from Theresienstadt : the case of Pavel Haas / Martin Čurda. FKA twigs and popular music signification : the challenge of fluid clarity / William Echard. Lost innocence : signifying East, signifying West / Edward Campbell -- Part VI, Music signification and emotion, cognition, and embodiment. Four flavors of pre-modern emotion / Michael Spitzer. Music as experience : musical sense-making between step-by-step processing and synoptic overview / Mark Reybrouck. Melody as representation / David Lidov -- Part VII, Music signification and education. Musical semiosis as a process of learning and growth / Juha Ojala. A pragmatic map of music signification for music analysis courses / Joan Grimalt -- Part VIII, Music signification and intermodality. The operatic principle : negoitating contradictory demands of signification / Bálint Veres. Pianto as a topical signifier of grief in contemporary operas by John Adams, Thomas Adès, and Kaija Saariaho / Yayoi Uno Everett. Musical ekphrasis : the evolution of the concept and the breadth of its application / Siglind Bruhn.

Call Number

JMF 21-115

ISBN

• 9780815376453
• 0815376456
• 9781351237536 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781351237512 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781351237529 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781351237505 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019051822

OCLC

1130379489

Title

The Routledge handbook of music signification / edited by Esti Sheinberg and William P. Dougherty.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.

Type of Content

text

still image

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge handbooks

Routledge handbooks.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-387) and index.

Added Author

Sheinberg, Esti, 1954- editor.

Dougherty, William Patrick, 1956- editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781351237512

Research Call Number

JMF 21-115