Kofi Agawu

Music as Discourse

Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music

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Produktbeschreibung

Kofi Agawu's Music as Discourse has become a standard and definitive work in musical semiotics. Working at the nexus of musicology, ethnomusicology, and music philosophy and aesthetics, Agawu presents a synthetic and innovative approach to musical meaning which argues deftly for the thinking of music as a discourse in itself--composed not only of sequences of gestures, phrases, or progressions, but rather also of the very philosophical and linguistic props that enable the analytical formulations made about music as an object of study.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780190206406
• ISBN-10: 0190206403
• Artikelnr.: 47863616

Autorenporträt

Kofi Agawu is Professor of Music at Princeton University and an adjunct professor at the University of Ghana, Legon. He is also author of Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* PART I
* Theory
* 1. Music as Language
* 2. Criteria for Analysis I
* 3. Criteria for Analysis II
* 4. Bridges to Free Composition
* 5. Paradigmatic Analysis
* PART II
* Analyses
* 6. Liszt, Orpheus (1853-1854)
* 7. Brahms, Intermezzo in E Minor, op. 119, no. 2 (1893), and Symphony
no. 1/ii (1872-1879)
* 8. Mahler, Symphony no. 9/i (1908-1909)
* 9. Beethoven, String Quartet, op. 130/i (1825-1826), and Stravinsky,
Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920)
* Epilogue
* Bibliography
* Index