Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music

by Anthony Pople (Editor)

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521452366
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/21/1994
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.71(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Part I. Languages: 1. Metaphor in Roger Scruton's aesthetics of music Naomi Cumming; 2. Competing myths: the American abandonment of Schenker's organicism Robert Snarrenberg; 3. Rehabilitating the incorrigible Marion A. Guck; Part II. Decisions: 4. Criteria of correctness in music theory and analysis Jonathan Dunsby; 5. Ambiguity in tonal music: a preliminary study Kofi Agawu; 6. Systems and strategies: functions and limits of analysis Anthony Pople; Part III. Texts: 7. Debussy's significant connections: metaphor and metonymy in analytical method Craig Ayrey; 8. Music as text: Mahler, Schumann and issues in analysis Robert Samuels; 9. The obbligato recitative: narrative and Schoenberg's Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16 Alan Street; 10. Music theory and the challenge of modern music: Birtwistle's Refrains and Choruses Jonathan Cross; 11. Répons: phantasmagoria or the articulation of space? Alastair Williams; Bibliography; Index.