Analytical Strategies and Musical Interpretation
Essays on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music
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- Editors:
- Craig Ayrey, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Mark Everist, King's College London
- Date Published: January 2004
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521543972
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This book is devoted to music analysis as an interpretive activity. Interpretation is often considered only in theory, or as a philosophical problem, but this book attempts to demonstrate and reflect on the interpretive results of analysis. Two associated types of practice are emphasised: 'translation', the transformation of one type of experience or art object into the musical work, the artistic attempt to persuade us that the new product is as valid as its original, or more so than its origin; and 'rhetoric', the attempt to persuade us, through structure, to accept the signifying power of the work. The unifying theme of the essays is the interpretive transformation of concepts, ideas and forms that constitutes the heart of the compositional process of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. The repertoire discussed ranges from Schumann through Wagner, Mahler, Zemlinsky, Debussy, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern and Stravinsky to Carter and Birtwistle.
Read more- Reflects the current state of analytical thinking
- Considers music analysis as a mode of interpretation
- Contributions by distinguished British and American scholars
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- Date Published: January 2004
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521543972
- length: 336 pages
- dimensions: 247 x 190 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.6kg
- contains: 4 b/w illus. 1 table 91 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: different trains Craig Ayrey
Part I. Translations:
2. Stravinsky's symphonies: accident or design? Stephen Walsh
3. Transcription and recomposition: the strange case of Zemlinsky's Maeterlinck songs Derrick Puffett
4. Symphony or symphonic scenes: issues of structure and context in Schumann's 'Rhenish' Symphony Michael Musgrave
5. The poetry of Debussy's En blanc et noir Jonathan Dunsby
6. Poem as non-verbal text: Elliott Carter's Concerto for Orchestra and Saint-John Perse's Winds Jonathan W. Bernard
Part II. Rhetorics:
7. Birtwistle's secret theatres Jonathan Cross
8. The narrative impulse in the second Nachtmusik from Mahler's Seventh Symphony Kopi Agawu
9. 'Von heute auf morgen': Schoenberg and the New Criticism Alan Street
10. Misleading voices: contrasts and continuities in Stravinsky studies Anthony Pople
11. Immortal voices, mortal forms Carolyn Abbate
12. So who are you? Webern's Op. 3, No. 1 David Griffiths.
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