Expressive Intersections in Brahms

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• Contributors to this exciting new volume examine the intersection of structure and meaning in Brahms's music, utilizing a wide range of approaches, fr... Lees meer

Focal Impulse Theory

John Paul Ito

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• Music is surrounded by movement, from the arching back of the guitarist to the violinist swaying with each bow stroke. To John Paul Ito, these actions... Lees meer

Visualizing Music

Eric Isaacson

• Paperback | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• To feel the emotional force of music, we experience it aurally. But how can we convey musical understanding visually? Visualizing Music explores the a... Lees meer

Musical Representations, Subjects, and Objects

Jairo Moreno

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• Jairo Moreno adapts the methodologies and nomenclature of Foucault's "archaeology of knowledge" and applies it through individual case studies to the ... Lees meer

Psychedelic Popular Music

William Echard

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• Recognized for its distinctive musical features and its connection to periods of social innovation and ferment, the genre of psychedelia has exerted l... Lees meer

Intertextuality in Western Art Music

Michael L Klein

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• "The outstanding originality of this book lies in the detail and perspicuity with which interrelations are traced between texts, it even seems that re... Lees meer

The Musical Topic

Raymond Monelle

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• The Musical Topic discusses three tropes prominently featured in Western European music: the hunt, the military, and the pastoral. Raymond Monelle pro... Lees meer

Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style

Andrew Davis

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• Giacomo Puccini is one of the most frequently performed and best loved of all operatic composers. In Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style, ... Lees meer

Sonata Fragments

Andrew Davis

• Paperback | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• In Sonata Fragments , Andrew Davis argues that the Romantic sonata is firmly rooted, both formally and expressively, in its Classical forebears, using... Lees meer

Pleasure and Meaning in the Classical Symphony

Melanie Lowe

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• Classical music permeates contemporary life. Encountered in waiting rooms, movies, and hotel lobbies as much as in the concert hall, perennial orchest... Lees meer

Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation

René Rusch

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• Music scholarship's views of Franz Schubert's instrumental works continue to evolve. How might aesthetic values, historiographies, revisions to the co... Lees meer

Music and the Politics of Negation

James R Currie

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• Over the past quarter century, music studies in the academy have their postmodern credentials by insisting that our scholarly engagements start and en... Lees meer

Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes

Robert S Hatten

• Paperback | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• "Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions ... Lees meer

Deepening Musical Performance Through Movement

Roger Pierce

• Paperback | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• Alexandra Pierce singles out elements of music such as melody, meter, and phrase, and investigates the defining quality of each through movement. Alth... Lees meer

The Rite of Spring at 100

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps ( The Rite of Spring ) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes... Lees meer

Music and Narrative Since 1900

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• This comprehensive volume offers a wide-ranging perspective on the stories that art music has told since the start of the 20th century. Contributors c... Lees meer

Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes

Robert S Hatten

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• "Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions ... Lees meer

Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation

René Rusch

• Paperback | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• Music scholarship's views of Franz Schubert's instrumental works continue to evolve. How might aesthetic values, historiographies, revisions to the co... Lees meer

Approaches to Meaning in Music

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• Approaches to Meaning in Music presents a survey of the problems and issues inherent in pursuing meaning and signification in music, and attempts to r... Lees meer

Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy

William Echard

• Paperback | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• "This book uniquely and successfully sustains a cohesive analysis of the work, career, and reception of a single artist. That the artist is Neil Young... Lees meer

A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music

Robert S Hatten

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• In his third volume on musical expressive meaning, Robert S. Hatten examines virtual agency in music from the perspectives of movement, gesture, embod... Lees meer

The Italian Traditions & Puccini

Nicholas Baragwanath

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• In this groundbreaking survey of the fundamentals, methods, and formulas that were taught at Italian music conservatories during the 19th century, Nic... Lees meer

Allusion as Narrative Premise in Brahms's Instrumental Music

Jacquelyn E C Sholes

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• Who inspired Johannes Brahms in his art of writing music? In this book, Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes provides a fresh look at the ways in which Brahms emplo... Lees meer

Music and Embodied Cognition

Arnie Cox

• Hardcover | Engels | Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and un... Lees meer