Isbn: 9783631660331 - music as message: an introduction to musical semantics (4 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. The book is designed as an introduction to the basic questions of musical semantics and represents the quintessence of fifty years of the author's researches into music from Beethoven to Nono. Translator(s): Bernhardt-Kabisch, Ernest. Num Pages: 339 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; AVG; DSB; JMRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 215 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540. . 2016. New edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. 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. …