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Music as discourse : semiotic adventures in romantic music /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Agawu, V. Kofi (Victor Kofi)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Oxford studies in music theory.
Subjects:
Musical analysis.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Table of Contents:
  • Music as language
  • Criteria for analysis I
  • Criteria for analysis II
  • Bridges to free composition
  • Paradigmatic analysis
  • Liszt, Orpheus (1853-1854)
  • Brahms, Intermezzo in E minor, op. 119, no. 2 (1893), and Symphony no. 1/ii (1872-1876)
  • Mahler, Symphony no. 9/i (1908-1909)
  • Beethoven, string quartet, op. 130/i (1825-1826), and Stravinsky, Symphonies of wind instruments (1920)
  • Epilogue.