Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music

Hardback

Main Details

Title Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music
Authors and Contributors      By (author) V. Kofi Agawu
SeriesPrinceton Legacy Library
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:168
Dimensions(mm): Height 254,Width 203
Category/GenreTheory of music and musicology
ISBN/Barcode 9780691631523
ClassificationsDewey:780
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 19 April 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyze the so-called Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this condition. Playing with Signs proposes a listener-oriented theory of Classic instrumental music th

Reviews

"This book is extraordinarily rich in suggestion. Ideas are imported from Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes, David Lidov, Edward Said... This is eclecticism at its most erudite and liberal."--Music and Letters