Music Semiotics: A Network of Significations: In Honour and Memory of Raymond Monelle

An international group of contributors, including leading authorities on music and culture, come together in this volume to investigate different ways in which music signifies. Looking at the nature of musical texts and music's narrativity, a number of the essays in this collection delve into the relationship between music and philosophy, literature, poetry, folk traditions and the theatre, with opera a genre that particularly lends itself to this mode of investigation. Other contributions look at theories of musical markedness, metaphor and irony. Musical works discussed include those by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, Stravinsky, BartÃ3k, Xenakis, Kutavicius and John Adams.

Author: Esti Sheinberg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/28/2012
Pages: 366
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781409411024

About the Author
Esti Sheinberg is the author of Irony, Satire, Parody and the Grotesque in the Music of Dmitri Shostakovich (Ashgate: 2000). A former student and colleague of Raymond Monelle, Sheinberg's scholarship contributes to the developing field of music signification by combining music analysis and historical research with the semiotics of music.