Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Greene, David B.

Publication

Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Description

iii, 166 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in history and interpretation of music ; v. 110

Uniform Title

Studies in the history and interpretation of music ; v. 110.

Subjects

• Musical analysis
• Music > Philosophy and aesthetics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-162) and index.

Contents

Preface / Wilfrid Mellers -- Pt. 1. The possiblity of music about music -- 1. Kinds of reference and self-reference in music -- 2. Meta-music and aesthetic experience -- 3. The contextuality of music about music -- Pt. 2. Hearing the possibility of music about music : five pieces -- 1. Handel's Ode for St. Cecilia's day : a celebration of the musicality of the divine -- 2. Beethoven's Diabelli variations : a meditation on creating -- 3. Britten's War requiem : an indictment of religious music -- 4. Penderecki's "De Natura sonoris" : a musical essay on the musicality of sound -- 5. Strauss's Capriccio : an affair of musically felt words -- Pt. 3. The need for music about music -- 1. The aesthetic consciousness and its impasses -- 2. Music about music and the aesthetic impasses -- 3. Double movements in musical easthetics of music -- 4. Hearing the need for music about music : a reprise of five pieces -- Pt. 4. The impossibility of music about music -- 1. Mahler's Seventh symphony and its statement on meaning in music -- 2. Gaps in musical meaning and the impossibility of music about music -- 3. The subjectlikeness of music -- 4. Hearing the impossibility of music about music : the five pieces again.

ISBN

0773463356

LCCN

2004056507

OCLC

• ocm56195109
• SCSB-5142414

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries