General Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art, Music Theory & Composition - General & Miscellaneous, Aesthetics of Music, Music Theory & Composition - Analysis

Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music

Name: Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music
Author: Anthony Pople
ISBN: 9780521028301

by Anthony Pople (Editor), Pople Anthony

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Overview

Recent encounters with structuralist and poststructuralist critical theory, linguistics, and cognitive sciences have brought the theory and analysis of music into the orbit of important developments in present-day intellectual history. Without seeking to impose an explicit redefinition of either theory or analysis, this book explores the limits of both. Essays on decidability, ambiguity, metaphor, music as text, and music analysis as cognitive theory are complemented by studies of works by Debussy, Schoenberg, Birtwistle and Boulez.

Synopsis

This book presents the work of a group of scholars who, without seeking to impose an explicit redefinition of either theory or analysis, explore the limits of both.