Music's Meanings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music's Meanings write by Philip Tagg. This book was released on 2013-03-03. Music's Meanings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “In addressing a pedagogical problem ―how to talk about music as if it meant something other than itself – Philip Tagg raises fundamental questions about western epistemology as well as some of its strategically mystifying discourses. With an unsurpassed authority in the field, the author draws on a lifetime of critical reflection on the experience of music, and how to communicate it without resorting to exclusionary jargon. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in music, for whatever reason: students, teachers, researchers, performers, industry and policy stakeholders, or just to be able to talk intelligently about the musical experience.” (Prof. Bruce Johnson)
Music and Meaning
Music and Meaning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and Meaning write by Jenefer Robinson. This book was released on 2018-09-05. Music and Meaning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In order to promote new ways of thinking about musical meaning, this volume brings together scholars in music theory, musicology, and the philosophy of music, disciplines generally treated as separate and distinct. This interdisciplinary collaboration, while respecting differences in perspective, identifies and elaborates shared concerns. This volume focuses on the many and various kinds of meaning in music. Do musical meanings exist exclusively in internal, formal musical relations or might they also be found in the relationship between music and other areas of experience, such as action, emotion, ideas, and values? Also discussed is the vexed question why people listen to and apparently enjoy music which expresses unpleasant emotions, such as melancholy or despair. Among the particular pieces the writers discuss are Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, and Schubert's last sonata. More broadly, they consider the relation of musical meaning and interpretation to language, storytelling, drama, imagination, metaphor, and emotion.
Approaches to Meaning in Music
Approaches to Meaning in Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Approaches to Meaning in Music write by Byron Almén. This book was released on 2006-11-01. Approaches to Meaning in Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Approaches to Meaning in Music presents a survey of the problems and issues inherent in pursuing meaning and signification in music, and attempts to rectify the conundrums that have plagued philosophers, artists, and theorists since the time of Pythagoras. This collection brings together essays that reflect a variety of diverse perspectives on approaches to musical meaning. Established music theorists and musicologists cover topics including musical aspect and temporality, collage, borrowing and association, musical symbols and creative mythopoesis, the articulation of silence, the mutual interaction of cultural and music-artistic phenomena, and the analysis of gesture. Contributors are Byron Almén, J. Peter Burkholder, Nicholas Cook, Robert S. Hatten, Patrick McCreless, Jann Pasler, and Edward Pearsall.
Emotion and Meaning in Music
Emotion and Meaning in Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emotion and Meaning in Music write by Leonard B. Meyer. This book was released on 1956. Emotion and Meaning in Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Altogether it is a book that should be required reading for any student of music, be he composer, performer, or theorist. It clears the air of many confused notions . . . and lays the groundwork for exhaustive study of the basic problem of music theory and aesthetics, the relationship between pattern and meaning."—David Kraehenbuehl, Journal of Music Theory "This is the best study of its kind to have come to the attention of this reviewer."—Jules Wolffers, The Christian Science Monitor "It is not too much to say that his approach provides a basis for the meaningful discussion of emotion and meaning in all art."—David P. McAllester, American Anthropologist "A book which should be read by all who want deeper insights into music listening, performing, and composing."—Marcus G. Raskin, Chicago Review
Music and Meaning in the Mass
Music and Meaning in the Mass - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and Meaning in the Mass write by AnnaMaria Cardinalli-Padilla. This book was released on 2020-08-04. Music and Meaning in the Mass available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As musicians, we routinely witness — and personally experience — the powerful influence music has over our bodies, emotions, and minds. As parish musicians, our task is to wield this power in service of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus on the altar. Indeed, your music, by speaking to humanity in a language deeper than words, can save our world by drawing souls to Christ where He most longs to encounter them — in the Eucharist. Nothing can spark and fan the flames of desire — of longing, love, awe, and reverence — quite like music can when it is skillfully directed to the task. That’s why I’ve written Music and Meaning in the Mass — to guide you carefully through the principles that help draw congregants into active participation in the Mass. Rather than advocating any particular musical style in the liturgy,
