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.
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'A brief review cannot hope to do individual justice to the constituent essays.' David Wright, The Musical Times
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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. It is the first book designed to emphasise the practical results of interpretive thinking about musical structure.
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New York, Saint-John Perse, Elliott Carter, Arnold Whittall, Arnold Schoenberg, The Rite of Spring, Alban Berg, Symphonies of Wind Instruments, University of California Press, Selected Correspondence, Alexander Zemlinsky, Jonathan Dunsby, New Haven, Paul Sacher Stiftung, Princeton University Press, Robert Schumann, Seventh Symphony, Yale University Press, Arbeitsweise Igor, Carolyn Abbate, Igor Stravinsky, Oxford University Press, Perspectives of New Music, Piano Concerto, Robert Craft New!
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heute series, einst heim, serpent theme, dich allein, second caprice, autograph full score, heute auf morgen, wert war, music analysis, concerto for orchestra, piano version, orchestral version, musical modernism, fourth movement, dove descending, accompaniment figures, cor anglais, programme music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Saint-John Perse, Elliott Carter, Arnold Whittall, Arnold Schoenberg, The Rite of Spring, Alban Berg, Symphonies of Wind Instruments, University of California Press, Selected Correspondence, Alexander Zemlinsky, Jonathan Dunsby, New Haven, Paul Sacher Stiftung, Princeton University Press, Robert Schumann, Seventh Symphony, Yale University Press, Arbeitsweise Igor, Carolyn Abbate, Igor Stravinsky, Oxford University Press, Perspectives of New Music, Piano Concerto, Robert Craft New!
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- The Rite of Spring (Dover Miniature Music Scores) by Igor Stravinsky on 10 pages
- Style and Idea: Selected Writings by Arnold Schoenberg on 5 pages
- Saint-John Perse by Rene M. Galand on 5 pages
- Double Concerto (1961): Full Score by Elliott Carter on 4 pages
- Piano Concerto: Full Score by Elliott Carter on page 174, page 186, and page 317
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- Stravinsky's Late Music (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis) by Joseph N. Straus on 4 pages
- Stravinsky's Late Music (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis) by Joseph N. Straus on 4 pages
- Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century by Arnold Whittall on page 117, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Jonathan Cross in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Virtuosity and the Musical Work: The Transcendental Studies of Liszt by Jim Samson on page 105, and Back Matter
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