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Speaking of Music: Addressing the Sonorous
Keith Chapin
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Description for Speaking of Music: Addressing the Sonorous
Hardback. A collection of essays that address the ways that writers, musicians, philosophers, politicians, critics, and scholars speak of music from varying standpoints and in varying ways. An introduction to the volume identifies common themes and issues. Editor(s): Chapin, Keith. Num Pages: 344 pages, 11 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
People chat about music every day, but they also treat it as a limit, as the boundary of what is sayable. By addressing different perspectives and traditions that form and inform the speaking of music in Western culture—musical, literary, philosophical, semiotic, political—this volume offers a unique snapshot of today’s scholarship on speech about music. The range of considerations and material is wide. Among others, they include the words used to interpret musical works (such as those of Beethoven), the words used to channel musical practices (whether Bach’s, Rousseau’s, or Hispanic political protesters’), and the words used to represent music (whether ... Read more
People chat about music every day, but they also treat it as a limit, as the boundary of what is sayable. By addressing different perspectives and traditions that form and inform the speaking of music in Western culture—musical, literary, philosophical, semiotic, political—this volume offers a unique snapshot of today’s scholarship on speech about music. The range of considerations and material is wide. Among others, they include the words used to interpret musical works (such as those of Beethoven), the words used to channel musical practices (whether Bach’s, Rousseau’s, or Hispanic political protesters’), and the words used to represent music (whether ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823251384
SKU
V9780823251384
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About Keith Chapin
Keith Chapin is Lecturer in Music at Cardiff University. He has taught at Fordham University (New York) and at the New Zealand School of Music (Wellington). He specializes in issues of critical theory, music aesthetics, and music theory in the seventeenth through twentieth centuries and in particular on issues of counterpoint. He has been Coeditor of Eighteenth- Century Music and ... Read more
Reviews for Speaking of Music: Addressing the Sonorous
"A rare, useful, and rich book, destined to attract musicologists, philosophers, theorists of all sorts, and philosophers of language."
-Pierre Saint-Amand Brown University "Throughout the book there are imaginative insights and unique perspectives that challenge preconceptions and give new directions for further investigation."
-Kenneth Gloag Cardiff University
-Pierre Saint-Amand Brown University "Throughout the book there are imaginative insights and unique perspectives that challenge preconceptions and give new directions for further investigation."
-Kenneth Gloag Cardiff University