Reflections on Musical Meaning and Its Representations
Published on 6. September 2011
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-253-35632-1 (ISBN)
Description
How is it possible to talk or write about music? What is the link between graphic signs and music? What makes music meaningful? In this book, distinguished scholar Leo Treitler explores the relationships among language, musical notation, performance, compositional practice, and patterns of culture in the presentation and representation of music. Treitler engages a wide variety of historical sources to discuss works from medieval plainchant to Berg's opera Lulu and a range of music in between.
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"A determined, imaginative quest to explore musical meaning through a variety of repertoires and a range of methodologies and lines of inquiry." Walter Frisch, Columbia University "Treitler brings to his work the deep experience of a seasoned musician and music historian who is at the same time a thoughtful philosopher, and the benefits of both kinds of experience play through all of his writings in a very palpable way." Lewis Lockwood, Harvard UniversityMore details
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Introduction I. Language 1. Language and the Interpretation of Music; 2. Being at a Loss for Words; 3. Beethoven's "Expressive" Markings II. Performance 4. The Immanence of Performance in Medieval Song; 5. Early Recorded Performances of Chopin Waltzes and Mazurkas: The Relation to the Text III. Notation 6. What Kind of Thing is Musical Notation?; 7. Sketching Music, Writing Music IV. Interpretative Frames 8. The Lulu Character and the Character of Lulu; 9. History and Archetypes; 10. Gender and Other Dualities of Music History; 11. Hermeneutics, Exegetics, or What?; 12. Facile Metaphors, Hidden Gaps, Short Circuits: Should We Adore Adorno? Notes; Bibliography; Index