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Book 2004.0

Systems of musical sense

Fulvio Delli Pizzi | Michele Ignelzi | Paolo Rosato

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essays on the analysis, semiotics, and hermeneutics of music

Music International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland | University of Helsinki | Dept. of Musicology 9525431061 Available

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Annotation: Systems of Musical Sense breathes new life into the field of music semiotics in its intuitive mix of logical rigor and hermeneutical interpretation and unique approach to paradigmatic analysis (Ruwet, Nattiez) and established theories of tinal music (Schoenberg). More significantly, te authors lay out an entirely new and innovative theory in their concept of musical homestasis, a phenomenon closely related to the fundamental law of physics which states that all things set in motion, organic and inorganic, tend to return to their initial point of rest. In tonal music, which also incorporates teology, this can take place at different levels, embodied by various parameters. The sensitive analyses here demonstrate ramifications of this axiom and cast new light on the structuring and effects de sens of tinal genres ranging in diversity from Bach chorales to Wagnerian opera. The culmination of mera tha a decade of research by this tea of widely published music scholars, the book is also a starting point: cognitivists, theorists, musicologists, and others can use the analytic methos "as is", develop it further, or transform it.The systems unvailed here need not be confined to tonal, "common-practice" art music. As universal axiom at least as dependable as the gestaltists "law of good continuation", the theory of homeostasis reveals new dimensions in earlier musical style and thos of more contemporary vintage.

Identifier: 9525431061

Status: Available

Book 2003.0

Andrzej Panufnik

Ewa Siemdaj

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twórczość symfoniczna

Music Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie 8387182370 Available

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Annotation: Polish biography and musical analysis of Andrzej Panufnik

Identifier: 8387182370

Status: Available

Book 2001.0

Frames and framing

Richard Littlefield

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the margins of music analysis

Music International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland 9525431002 Available

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Annotation: A study interested in the frames and the margins of musical analysis.

Identifier: 9525431002

Status: Available

Book 2001.0

Live Samba

Luiz Fernando Nascimento de Lima

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Analysis and Interpretation of Brazilian Pagode

Music International Semiotics Institute 9519865497 Available

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Annotation: Live Samba takes as its main topic the pagode movement, which apperead in the 1980s as a re-invention of the samba tradition. Deeply grounded in the most idiosyncratic musical patterns of samba, pagode countered the hegemony of the samba-schools and their media appeal. Pagode, too, became a major commercial success. It appeared in a transitional period, at the moment the music industry was shifting its focus towards lowe classes of the population. As a result, pagode and other local-based styles led the way to a recoinfiguration of Brazilian music. The transitional nature of this moment is reflected in the ambivalent nature of tpagode meanings. Those meanings were firmly attached to the local sphere, while at the same time open to communocation with translocal levels. In Live Samba, the author analyses pagode as a practice comprising both musical traits and symbolic associations with other spheres of Brazilian culture. The book looks at pagode songs through the frames of the samba tradition, of Brazilian society, of the commodity environment, and of musical signification, and it provides an introductory survey of samba and of the Brazilian music indurstry.

Identifier: 9519865497

Status: Available