Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music
- Author: Agawu, Kofi
Confirms [the author's] status as one of the foremost semiotic analysts of our time. . . rarely can a treatise that ponders on matters so weighty have had such a light, intensely readable, touch — More…
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Contents
- Introduction
- PART I
- Theory
- 1. Music as Language
- 2. Criteria for Analysis I
- 3. Criteria for Analysis II
- 4. Bridges to Free Composition
- 5. Paradigmatic Analysis
- PART II
- Analyses
- 6. Liszt, Orpheus (1853-1854)
- 7. Brahms, Intermezzo in E Minor, op. 119, no. 2 (1893), and Symphony no. 1/ii (1872-1879)
- 8. Mahler, Symphony no. 9/i (1908-1909)
- 9. Beethoven, String Quartet, op. 130/i (1825-1826), and Stravinsky, Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920)
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
