Playing with signs : a semiotic interpretation of classic music / V. Kofi Agawu.
- 作者： Agawu, V. Kofi (Victor Kofi)
- 出版： Princeton, N.J. ;Oxford : Princeton University Press 2025.
- 主題： Music--Semiotics. , Music--Philosophy and aesthetics. , Musical analysis. , Classicism in music.
- ISBN： 9780691273648 (hbk.) 、 0691273642 (hbk.) 、 9780691273631 (pbk.) 、 0691273634 (pbk.) 、 9780691273624 (ebk.)
- 一般註：Reprint. Originally published 1991.
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-150) and index.
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- 系統號： 005155861 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
An award-winning account of the importance of semiotic play in Classic instrumental music, including that of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven 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 fact. In Playing with Signs, Kofi Agawu proposes a listener-oriented theory of Classic instrumental music that encompasses its two most fundamental communicative dimensions: expression and structure. Units of expression, defined in reference to topoi, are shown here to interact with, confront, and merge into units of structure, defined in terms of the rhetorical conventions of beginning, continuing, and ending. The book draws on examples from works by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven to show that the explicitly referential, even theatrical, surface of Classic music derives from a play with signs. Although addressed primarily to readers interested in musical analysis, the book opens fruitful avenues for further research into musical semiotics, aesthetics, and Classicism.
摘要註
"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 fact. In Playing with Signs, Kofi Agawu proposes a listener-oriented theory of Classic instrumental music that encompasses its two most fundamental communicative dimensions: expression and structure. Units of expression, defined in reference to topoi, are shown here to interact with, confront, and merge into units of structure, defined in terms of the rhetorical conventions of beginning, continuing, and ending. The book draws on examples from works by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven to show that the explicitly referential, even theatrical, surface of Classic music derives from a play with signs. Although addressed primarily to readers interested in musical analysis, the book opens fruitful avenues for further research into musical semiotics, aesthetics, and Classicism."--