Mahler's Sixth Symphony: A Study in Musical Semiotics
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Cambridge University Press | 191 Pages | 1996-01-26 | ISBN 052148166X | PDF | 8,18 MB
This study uses a semiotic theory of signification in order to investigate different types of musical communication. Musical meaning is defined on several levels from structure, through questions of tradition and genre, to consideration of the symphony as a narrative alongside other contemporary nonmusical texts. Ideas from Eco, Barthes and Derrida are deployed within the context of close analysis of the score in order to unite specifically analytical insights with cultural hermeneutics.
• Analyses and discusses one of the most important works in the symphonic repertory • Uses ideas drawn from contemporary critical theory, in particular semiotics • Draws on ideas from Eco, Barthes, and Derrida
Contents
1. Music, theory and signification; 2. Motive as sign: an analysis of the Andante; 3. Coding of musical form: the finale; 4. Genre and presupposition in the Mahlerian Scherzo; 5. Musical narrative and the suicide of the symphony; 6. Coda; Bibliography.
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