Music as Message : An Introduction to Musical Semantics

Constantin Floros

ISBN 10: 3631660332 / ISBN 13: 9783631660331

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang, 2016

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and political ideas. Countless composers encrypt contents in their music that can be deciphered by a variety of methods. This book is designed as an introduction to the basic questions of musical semantics and discusses Beethoven's committed art, the core ideas of the 'Ring of the Nibelung' and of the 'Symphony of a Thousand', Wagner's idea of a religion of art, the relation of music and poetry, the musico-literary conceptions of composers, the large field of program music and the history of the impact of Gustav Mahler.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Music as Message : An Introduction to Musical Semantics
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631660332
• ISBN 13: 9783631660331
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 22D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 553 grams

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Synopsis

Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and political ideas. Countless composers encrypt contents in their music that can be deciphered by a variety of methods. This book is designed as an introduction to the basic questions of musical semantics and discusses Beethoven’s committed art, the core ideas of the «Ring of the Nibelung» and of the «Symphony of a Thousand», Wagner’s idea of a religion of art, the relation of music and poetry, the musico-literary conceptions of composers, the large field of program music and the history of the impact of Gustav Mahler.

About the Author

Constantin Floros is professor emeritus of Musicology at the University of Hamburg. Among his monographs are volumes on the origin of Gregorian neumes, Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alban Berg and György Ligeti.
Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch is professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He has translated several books by Constantin Floros.