Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music by Kofi Agawu

By Kofi Agawu

Kofi Agawu's Music as Discourse provides to quick turn into a typical and definitive paintings in musical semiotics. operating on the nexus of musicology, ethnomusicology, and song philosophy and aesthetics, Agawu offers an artificial and cutting edge method of musical which means which argues deftly for the taking into consideration tune as a discourse in itself--composed not just of sequences of gestures, words, or progressions, yet really additionally of the very philosophical and linguistic props that let the analytical formulations made approximately song as an item of analysis. The publication presents large demonstration of the pertinence of a semiological method of knowing the fully-freighted language of romantic track, stresses the significance of a generative method of tonal knowing, and gives extra perception into the analogy among song and language. Music as Discourse could be eagerly learn by way of all who're drawn to the idea, research and semiotics of track of the romantic period.

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