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Playing with Signs
V. Kofi Agawu
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Description for Playing with Signs
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 11. Weight in Grams: 571.
Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyze the so-called Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this condition. Playing with Signs proposes a listener-oriented theory of Classic instrumental music that encompasses its two most fundamental communicative dimensions: expression and structure. Units of expression, defined in reference to topoi, are shown here to interact with, confront, and merge into units of structure, defined in terms of the rhetorical conventions of beginning, continuing, and ending. The book draws on examples ... Read more
Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyze the so-called Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this condition. Playing with Signs proposes a listener-oriented theory of Classic instrumental music that encompasses its two most fundamental communicative dimensions: expression and structure. Units of expression, defined in reference to topoi, are shown here to interact with, confront, and merge into units of structure, defined in terms of the rhetorical conventions of beginning, continuing, and ending. The book draws on examples ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691631523
SKU
V9780691631523
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About V. Kofi Agawu
V. Kofi Agawu is Distinguished Professor of Music at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His books include On African Music; The African Imagination in Music; Music as Discourse; and Representing African Music.
Reviews for Playing with Signs
"This book is extraordinarily rich in suggestion. Ideas are imported from Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes, David Lidov, Edward Said... This is eclecticism at its most erudite and liberal."
Music and Letters
Music and Letters