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Reflections on Musical Meaning and Its Representations (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)
Leo Treitler
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Description for Reflections on Musical Meaning and Its Representations (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)
Paperback. How meaning has been made in music throughout history Series: Musical Meaning & Interpretation. Num Pages: 334 pages, 23 b&w illus., 63 music exx. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
How is it possible to talk or write about music? What is the link between graphic signs and music? What makes music meaningful? In this book, distinguished scholar Leo Treitler explores the relationships among language, musical notation, performance, compositional practice, and patterns of culture in the presentation and representation of music. Treitler engages a wide variety of historical sources to discuss works from medieval plainchant to Berg's opera Lulu and a range of music in between.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
Series
Musical Meaning & Interpretation
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253223166
SKU
V9780253223166
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99-50
About Leo Treitler
Leo Treitler is Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus, CUNY Graduate Center, and Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Reviews for Reflections on Musical Meaning and Its Representations (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)
"This is a compendium of writings by one of the most original thinkers in musicology. Lawrence Kramer deals with essentially the same subject in Interpreting Music (CH, May'11, 48-4986), but his writing is difficult. By contrast, Treitler's book is lucid and also more entertaining. Treitler (emer., CUNY Graduate Center) stands every issue on its head and shakes well to expose a viewpoint about musical meaning; for example, in a chapter titled 'What Kind of Thing Is Musical Notation' he casts the nursery rhyme 'Pop Goes the Weasel' in medieval neumes. All this said, readers may have difficulty understanding the interpretative frames into which Treiter organizes the chapters. Accordingly, those who approach this book should have some background in both historical musicology and philosophy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. — Choice"—W. K. Kearns, emeritus, University of Colorado at Boulder, February 2012 "A dozen essays await in this most recent gathering of Leo Treitler's writings, each teeming with ideas and together inviting us to follow one of musicology's most engaged thinkers in a sustained examination of what he calls the 'awesome task of representing music'."—Nineteenth-Century Music Review "Nov 2012"—Music & Letters "This is a compendium of writings by one of the most original thinkers in musicology . . . Treitler stands every issue on its head and shakes well to expose a viewpoint about musical meaning . . . Highly recommended."—Choice "Treitler brings to his work the deep experience of a seasoned musician and music historian who is at the same time a thoughtful philosopher, and the benefits of both kinds of experience play through all of his writings in a very palpable way."—Lewis Lockwood, Harvard University "A determined, imaginative quest to explore musical meaning through a variety of repertoires and a range of methodologies and lines of inquiry."—Walter Frisch, Columbia University