Is Language a Music?: Writings on Musical Form and Signification

Contents

• Foreword
• 1. Prelude-Is Language a Music?
• Part I . Structuralist Pespectives-
• Introduction
• 2. Structure and Function in Repetition.
• 3. The Allegretto of Beethoven's Seventh.
• 4. Mediation as a Formal Principle in Music: Three Examples.
• Part II . Semiotic Polemics-
• Introduction
• 5. Nattiez's Fondements.
• 6. Our Time with Druids.
• 7. Why We Still Need Peirce.
• Part III . From Gestures to Discourses-
• Introduction
• 8. Mind and Body in Music.
• 9. Opera Operta: Realism and Rehabilitation in La Traviata
• 10. A Monument in Song: Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee by Beverley (Buffy) St. Marie.
• Part IV . The Messages of Methods-
• Introduction
• 11. Bartok the Progessive.
• 12. The Art of Music Theory and the Aesthetic Category of the Possible
• 13. Technique and Signification in the Twelve-Tone Method
• 14. The Project of Abstraction in Painting and Music.
• Part V . Resisting Representation-
• Introduction
• 15. Replaying my Voice Mail Notes
• References
• Index