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Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation
Robert S. Hatten
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Description for Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation
Paperback. Presents an award-winning examination of Beethoven's music. Series: Advances in Semiotics. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
... recommended warmly to theorists and others interested in music, semiotics, and aesthetics. -Choice Radically departing from nineteenth-century Formalist aesthetics, the author argues that expressive meaning is not extramusical but fundamental to the reconstruction of compositional practice and stylistic understanding, even for the absolute works of Beethoven. Musical Meaning in Beethoven offers a fresh approach to the problem of expressive meaning in music.
... recommended warmly to theorists and others interested in music, semiotics, and aesthetics. -Choice Radically departing from nineteenth-century Formalist aesthetics, the author argues that expressive meaning is not extramusical but fundamental to the reconstruction of compositional practice and stylistic understanding, even for the absolute works of Beethoven. Musical Meaning in Beethoven offers a fresh approach to the problem of expressive meaning in music.
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
Advances in Semiotics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253217110
SKU
V9780253217110
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About Robert S. Hatten
Robert S. Hatten is Professor of Music Theory in the Indiana University School of Music. He is editor of the series Musical Meaning and Interpretation.
Reviews for Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation
This remarkable book should be seized upon by everyone looking to brush up their Ludwig. . . . Written so well, and with so little resort to classical music jargon, that it can be read in short amusing stretchesor long, engrossing sections. Read a few pages and you, too, can be humming him now.
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