Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music

There have been far-reaching changes in the way music theorists and analysts view the nature of their disciplines. Encounters with structuralist and post-structuralist critical theory, and with linguistics and cognitive sciences, have brought the theory and analysis of music into the orbit of important developments in intellectual history. This book presents the work of a group of scholars who, without seeking to impose an explicit redefinition of either theory or analysis, explore the limits of both in this context. Essays on the languages of analysis and theory, and on practical issues such as decidability, ambiguity and metaphor, combine with studies of works by Debussy, Schoenberg, Birtwistle and Boulez, together making a major contribution to an important debate in the growth of musicology.

ISBN 0521452368   DEWEY edition DC20 ISBN13 9780521452366 (What's this?)   Pages 244 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Volumes 1 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 530 Format Hardback   Published in Cambridge Publication date 21 Jul 1994   Height (mm) 228 Non-book description xiv, 226 p. :   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress ML3877 .T5 1994   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY 780.1   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Preface
		Acknowledgements
		Contributors
1		Metaphor in Roger Scruton's aesthetics of music by Naomi Cumming		3
2		Competing myths; the American abandonment of Schenker's organicism by Robert Snarrenberg		29
3		Rehabilitating the incorrigible by Marion A. Guck		57
4		Criteria of correctness in music theory and analysis by Jonathan Dunsby		77
5		Ambiguity in tonal music: a preliminary study by Kofi Agawu		86
6		Systems and strategies: functions and limits of analysis by Anthony Pople		108
7		Debussy's significant connections: metaphor and metonymy in analytical method by Craig Ayrey		127
8		Music as text: Mahler, Schumann and issues in analysis by Robert Samuels		152
9		The obbligato recitative: narrative and Schoenberg's Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16 by Alan Street		164
10		Music theory and the challenge of modern music: Birtwistle's Refrains and Choruses by Jonathan Cross		184
11		Repons: phantasmagoria or the articulation of space? by Alastair Williams		195
		Bibliography		211
		Index		223

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