Routledge Handbook of Music Signification

Esti Sheinberg published articles on music signification; Irony, Satire, Parody and the Grotesque in the Music of Shostakovich (Ashgate, 2000); edited Music Semiotics: A Network of Significations—in Honour and Memory of Raymond Monelle (Ashgate, 2012), and Anatoly Milka’s Rethinking J. S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue (Ashgate-Routledge, 2016).William P. Dougherty, Ellis and Nelle Levitt Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Drake University, has published articles on music semiotics and on the semiotics of the art song. In particular, he has explored settings of the Mignon Lieder from Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre.

• IntroductionEsti Sheinberg and William P. Dougherty Music Signification and Philosophy "Musik ist das nicht": On Romantic Incomprehensibility in Chopin Jamie Liddle From Semio-ethics to a Semiotics of Speech in Music and Musicology: Theoretical (and Utopian) Projections Christine Esclapez Music and RealityBen Curry From Ursatz to Urzemic: Avenues for Theories and Analyses of Music SignificationEero Tarasti Music Signification and Semiotics The Musical SignifierLawrence Kramer Barthes’s The Grain of the Voice RevisitedAnne Kauppala Britten and Stravinsky’s Neoclassical Opera: Signs, Signification, and SubjectivityNicholas P. McKay Fundamental Concepts for the Semiotic Interpretation of Musical Meaning: A Personal JourneyRobert Hatten Music Signification and Topic Theory Patterns and Topics as Elements of Signification in Late Eighteenth-Century MusicLauri Suurpää "Mad Day" and the "March of Bacchus": Figaro in Mahler’s Third Symphony Lóránt Péteri Topics and Stylistic Register in Russian Opera, 1775–1800Johanna Frymoyer She Spins and She Sighs: The Spinning-Wheel Topic and the Lamentation of the Romantic FemaleChia-Yi Wu Charles Griffes’s Xanadu: A Musical Garden of Opposites Taylor A. Greer Music Signification and Narrative Music Narrative: Theory, Context, Subjectivity Byron Almén Motivic Linkage and Actantial Pairing in Britten’s OperasMichael Baker The Narrative Rhetoric of Beethoven’s Fifth SymphonyAnatole Leikin From Music Signification to Musical Narrativity: Concepts and AnalysesMárta Grabócz Music Signification and Society Musical Vernaculars and their Signifying TransformationsMarina Ritzarev Multimodal Reinforcement and Worlds of Sense: A Political Approach to Musical EmotionsOscar Hernández-Salgar Reading Meaning In and Out of Music from Theresienstadt: The Case of Pavel HaasMartin Čurda FKA twigs and Popular Music Signification: The Challenge of Fluid Clarity William Echard Lost Innocence: Signifying East, Signifying WestEdward Campbell Music Signification and Emotion, Cognition and Embodiment Four Flavors of Pre-Modern EmotionMichael Spitzer Music as Experience: Musical Sense-making between Step-by-Step Processing and Synoptic OverviewMark Reybrouck Melody as RepresentationDavid Lidov Music Signification and Education Musical Semiosis as a Process of Learning and GrowthJuha Ojala A Pragmatic Map of Music Signification for Music Analysis CoursesJoan Grimalt Music Signification and Intermediality The Operatic Principle: Negotiating Contradictory Demands of SignificationBálint Veres Pianto as a Topical Signifier of Grief in Contemporary Operas by John Adams, Thomas Adès, and Kaija SaariahoYayoi Uno Everett Musical Ekphrasis: The Evolution of the Concept and the Breadth of its ApplicationSiglind Bruhn Bibliography

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