The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification.

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.

The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification captures the richness and complexity of the field, presenting 30 essays by recognized international experts that reflect current interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to the subject.

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