The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification

Contents

• Introduction
• Esti Sheinberg and William P. Dougherty
• Music Signification and Philosophy
• "Musik ist das nicht": On Romantic Incomprehensibility in Chopin
• Jamie Liddle
• From Semio-ethics to a Semiotics of Speech in Music and Musicology: Theoretical (and Utopian) Projections
• Christine Esclapez
• Music and Reality
• Ben Curry
• From Ursatz to Urzemic: Avenues for Theories and Analyses of Music Signification
• Eero Tarasti
• Music Signification and Semiotics
• The Musical Signifier
• Lawrence Kramer
• Barthes's The Grain of the Voice Revisited
• Anne Kauppala
• Britten and Stravinsky's Neoclassical Opera: Signs, Signification, and Subjectivity
• Nicholas P. McKay
• Fundamental Concepts for the Semiotic Interpretation of Musical Meaning: A Personal Journey
• Robert Hatten
• Music Signification and Topic Theory
• Patterns and Topics as Elements of Signification in Late Eighteenth-Century Music
• Lauri Suurpaa
• "Mad Day" and the "March of Bacchus": Figaro in Mahler's Third Symphony
• Lorant Peteri
• Topics and Stylistic Register in Russian Opera, 1775-1800
• Johanna Frymoyer
• She Spins and She Sighs: The Spinning-Wheel Topic and the Lamentation of the Romantic Female
• Chia-Yi Wu
• Charles Griffes's Xanadu: A Musical Garden of Opposites
• Taylor A. Greer
• Music Signification and Narrative
• Music Narrative: Theory, Context, Subjectivity
• Byron Almen
• Motivic Linkage and Actantial Pairing in Britten's Operas
• Michael Baker
• The Narrative Rhetoric of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
• Anatole Leikin
• From Music Signification to Musical Narrativity: Concepts and Analyses
• Marta Grabocz
• Music Signification and Society
• Musical Vernaculars and their Signifying Transformations
• Marina Ritzarev
• Multimodal Reinforcement and Worlds of Sense: A Political Approach to Musical Emotions
• Oscar Hernandez-Salgar
• Reading Meaning In and Out of Music from Theresienstadt: The Case of Pavel Haas
• Martin Curda
• FKA twigs and Popular Music Signification: The Challenge of Fluid Clarity
• William Echard
• Lost Innocence: Signifying East, Signifying West
• Edward Campbell
• Music Signification and Emotion, Cognition and Embodiment
• Four Flavors of Pre-Modern Emotion
• Michael Spitzer
• Music as Experience: Musical Sense-making between Step-by-Step Processing and Synoptic Overview
• Mark Reybrouck
• Melody as Representation
• David Lidov
• Music Signification and Education
• Musical Semiosis as a Process of Learning and Growth
• Juha Ojala
• A Pragmatic Map of Music Signification for Music Analysis Courses
• Joan Grimalt
• Music Signification and Intermediality
• The Operatic Principle: Negotiating Contradictory Demands of Signification
• Balint Veres
• Pianto as a Topical Signifier of Grief in Contemporary Operas by John Adams, Thomas Ades, and Kaija Saariaho
• Yayoi Uno Everett
• Musical Ekphrasis: The Evolution of the Concept and the Breadth of its Application
• Siglind Bruhn
• Bibliography