Music as Message

Constantin Floros

ISBN 10: 3631660332 / ISBN 13: 9783631660331

Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Feb 2016, 2016

Beschreibung

Neuware -Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and political ideas. Countless composers encrypt contents in their music that can be deciphered by a variety of methods. This book is designed as an introduction to the basic questions of musical semantics and discusses Beethoven¿s committed art, the core ideas of the «Ring of the Nibelung» and of the «Symphony of a Thousand», Wagner¿s idea of a religion of art, the relation of music and poetry, the musico-literary conceptions of composers, the large field of program music and the history of the impact of Gustav Mahler. 340 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783631660331

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Music as Message
• Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Feb 2016
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3631660332
• ISBN-13: 9783631660331
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 216B x 153 H x 22 T Millimeter Breite: 216 mm, Höhe: 153 mm, Tiefe: 22 mm
• Gewicht: 553 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

The book is designed as an introduction to the basic questions of musical semantics and represents the quintessence of fifty years of the author's researches into music from Beethoven to Nono.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Constantin Floros is professor emeritus of Musicology at the University of Hamburg. Among his monographs are volumes on the origin of Gregorian neumes, Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alban Berg and György Ligeti.
Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch is professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He has translated several books by Constantin Floros.