The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification (Routledge Music Handbooks)

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of musical examples
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: Music signification and philosophy
	1. “Musik ist das nicht”: On Romantic incomprehensibility in Chopin
	2. From semio-ethics to a semiotics of speech in music and musicology: Theoretical (and Utopian) projections
	3. Music and reality
	4. From Ursatz to Urzemic: Avenues for theories and analyses of music signification
PART II: Music signification and semiotics
	5. The musical signifier
	6. Barthes’s “The Grain of the Voice” revisited
	7. Britten and Stravinsky’s neoclassical operas: Signs, signification, and subjectivity
	8. Fundamental concepts for the semiotic interpretation of musical meaning: A personal journey
PART III: Music signification and topic theory
	9. Patterns and topics as elements of signification in late eighteenth-century music
	10. “Mad day” and the “march of Bacchus”: Figaro in Mahler’s Third Symphony
	11. Topics and stylistic register in Russian opera, 1775–1800
	12. She spins and she sighs: The spinning-wheel topic and the lamentation of the romantic female
	13. Charles Griffes’s Xanadu: A musical garden of opposites
PART IV: Music signification and narrative
	14. Music narrative: Theory, context, subjectivity
	15. Motivic linkage and actantial pairing in Britten’s operas
	16. The narrative rhetoric of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
	17. From music signification to musical narrativity: Concepts and analyses
PART V: Music signification and society
	18. Musical vernaculars and their signifying transformations
	19. Multimodal reinforcement and worlds of sense: A political approach to musical emotions
	20. Reading meaning in and out of music from Theresienstadt: The case of Pavel Haas
	21. FKA twigs and popular music signification: The challenge of fluid clarity
	22. Lost innocence: Signifying East, signifying West
PART VI: Music signification and emotion, cognition, and embodiment
	23. Four flavors of pre-modern emotion
	24. Music as experience: Musical sense-making between step-by-step processing and synoptic overview
	25. Melody as representation
PART VII: Music signification and education
	26. Musical semiosis as a process of learning and growth
	27. A pragmatic map of music signification for music analysis courses
PART VIII: Music signification and intermediality
	28. The operatic principle: Negotiating contradictory demands of signification
	29. Pianto as a topical signifier of grief in contemporary operas by John Adams, Thomas Adès, and Kaija Saariaho
	30. Musical ekphrasis: The evolution of the concept and the breadth of its application
Bibliography
Index of names
Index of terms and concepts