Mahler's Sixth Symphony
A Study in Musical Semiotics
Part of Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis
- Author: Robert Samuels, The Open University, Milton Keynes
- Date Published: March 2004
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521602839
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The terms of structuralist and post-structuralist theory have been widely debated within the field of music analysis in recent years. However, very few analyses have attempted to address the repertoire of large orchestral works of the turn of the century - works which seem most obviously to escape the categories of conventional analysis. This study uses a semiotic theory of signification in order to investigate different types of musical communication. Musical meaning is defined on several levels from structures immanent to the work, through questions of tradition and genre, to consideration of the symphony as a narrative alongside other contemporary non-musical texts. Ideas from Eco, Barthes, and Derrida are deployed within the context of close analysis of the score in order to unite specifically analytical insights with cultural hermeneutics.
Read more- Analyses and discusses one of the most important works in the symphonic repertory
- Uses ideas drawn from contemporary critical theory, in particular semiotics
- Draws on ideas from Eco, Barthes, and Derrida
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- Date Published: March 2004
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521602839
- length: 192 pages
- dimensions: 247 x 190 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.35kg
- contains: 4 b/w illus. 7 tables 40 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Music, theory and signification
2. Motive as sign: an analysis of the Andante
3. Coding of musical form: the finale
4. Genre and presupposition in the Mahlerian Scherzo
5. Musical narrative and the suicide of the symphony
6. Coda
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