More than Meets the Ear: A Study of the Semantics of Music

Contents

• Chapter 1 Preface
• Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
• Chapter 3 General Principles:
• Chapter 4 Roots and Sources. Music Games
• Chapter 5 The Game of Likenesses
• Chapter 6 The Sound of Music
• Chapter 7 Symbolism and Semiotics in Music
• Chapter 8 The Materials of Music
• Chapter 9 The Rhetoric of Music
• Chapter 10 Musical Hermeneutics
• Chapter 11 Listening Historically
• Chapter 12 Point of View in Music
• Chapter 13 Principles Specific to Music:
• Chapter 14 Musical Tension
• Chapter 15 Other Sources of Tension
• Chapter 16 Song and Dance
• Chapter 17 Melody and Melodic Line: Some Consequences
• Chapter 18 The Literature of the Piano:
• Chapter 19 Introductory Remarks
• Chapter 20 First Analysis: Mephisto Waltz
• Chapter 21 Second Analysis: Two-
• Part I nventions in F and fm
• Chapter 22 Third Analysis: Reflets dans l'eau
• Chapter 23 Moods: Works by Bach, Byrd, Mozart; Chopin, Schubert and Rachmaninoff
• Chapter 24 Short Romantic Compositions
• Chapter 25 Short Romantic Compositions (cont.)
• Chapter 26 Short Classic and Baroque Compositions
• Chapter 27 Compositions of Intermediate Length
• Chapter 28 Theme and Cariations
• Chapter 29 Beethoven Sonatas
• Chapter 30 The Sonata: Other Composers
• Chapter 31 Romantic Sonatas and Fantasies
• Chapter 32 Nationalism
• Chapter 33 Back to Bach
• Chapter 34 Fugue after Bach
• Chapter 35 Debussy and Ravel
• Chapter 36 More Clothes for the Emperor
• Chapter 37 More Clothes for the Emperor (cont.)
• Chapter 38 Later Developments
• Chapter 39 Appendix
• Chapter 40 Notes
• Chapter 41 Index