Music in Search of Itself : Essays on Music About Music.

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Greene, David B

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TextSeries: Studies in History & Interpretation SPublication details: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (175 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780773411135
0773411135

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Music in Search of Itself : Essays on Music About Music.DDC classification:

781.1/7 781.17

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MT90 .G824 2004

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Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter One: The Possibility of Music about Music; 1. Kinds of Refrences and Self-Refrence in Music; i. Repetition without Reference; ii. Repetition and Self-Reference; iii. Repetition and Emotional Reference; iv. Repetition, Reference and Hearing Music as a Category; v. Repetition, Reference and the Critque of the Listening Experience; vi. Repetition, Reference, and the Critique of the Category of Art; 2. Music and Reference by Methaphorical Exemplification.

Chapter Two: Hearing the Possibility of Music about Music: Five Pieces1. Handel's Ode for St. Cecila's Day. A Celebration of the Musicality of the Divine; 2. Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. A Meditation on Creating; 3. Britten's War Requiem. An Indictment of Religious Music; 4. Penderecki's "De Natura sonoris". A Musical Essay on the Musicality of Sound; 5. Strauss's Capriccio. An Affair of Musically Felt Words; Chapter Three: The Need for Music about Music; 1. The Aesthetic Consciousness and Its Impasses; 2. Music about Music and the Aesthetic Impasses.

3. Double Movements in Musical Aesthetics of Music4. Hearing the Need for Music about Music. A Reprise of Five Pieces.; Chapter Four: The Impossibility of Music about Music; 1. Mahler's Seventh Symphony and It's Statement on Meaning in Music; 2. Gaps in Musical Meaning and the Impossibility of Music about Music; 3. The Subjectlikeness of Music; 4. Hearing the Impossibility about Music. The Five Pieces Again; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: Many contemporary composers and music critics say in an offhand way that all music written in the past quarter century is about music--that it is reflexive and self-referential in some significant sense. It is music in search of an understanding of itself. This book tries to deepen the understanding of music about music as well as music itself in four ways. First, it puts music's own self-understanding onto an equal footing with philosophical aesthetics of music. It subjects pieces of music about music to close, detailed analysis, and puts the statements about the nature of music that emerge fr.

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Many contemporary composers and music critics say in an offhand way that all music written in the past quarter century is about music--that it is reflexive and self-referential in some significant sense. It is music in search of an understanding of itself. This book tries to deepen the understanding of music about music as well as music itself in four ways. First, it puts music's own self-understanding onto an equal footing with philosophical aesthetics of music. It subjects pieces of music about music to close, detailed analysis, and puts the statements about the nature of music that emerge fr.