Playing with signs: a semiotic interpretation of classic music

Auteur :
Agawu, V. Kofi
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691273648
Date de publication :
25 mars 2025
Dimensions :
25,4 x 20,3 cm
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyze the so-called Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this condition. Playing with Signs proposes a listener-oriented theory of Classic instrumental music th