Is Language a Music?: Writings on Musical Form and Signification

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Is Language a Music? presents broadly ranging explorations of musicalreference that address how and why language cannot be the only measure of meanings.Music, the author insists, is pervaded by significations, but often their erasure isas pertinent to artistry as their construction. This volume's 15 essays in musicalsemiotics are grouped into sections that treat issues in structural description, present alternative views of theoretical foundations, consider the elaboration ofgestural references to form musical discourse, explore some stylistic issues in20th-century music, and examine the resistance to reference which is esteemed in thetradition of absolute music.Musical Meaning and Interpretation --Robert S. Hatten, editor

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