The terms of structuralist and post-structuralist theory have been widely debated within the field of music analysis in recent years. However, very few analyses have attempted to address the repertoire of large orchestral works of the turn of the century - works which seem most obviously to escape the categories of conventional analysis. This study uses a semiotic theory of signification in order to investigate different types of musical communication. Musical meaning is defined on several levels from structures immanent to the work, through questions of tradition and genre, to consideration of the symphony as a narrative alongside other contemporary non-musical texts. Ideas from Eco, Barthes, and Derrida are deployed within the context of close analysis of the score in order to unite specifically analytical insights with cultural hermeneutics.
| ISBN: | 9780521481663 |
| Publication date: | 14th December 1995 |
| Author: | Robert Samuels |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 175 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis |
| Genres: |
Musicians, singers, bands and groups |
The terms of structuralist and post-structuralist theory have been widely debated within the field of music analysis in recent years. However, very few analyses have attempted to address the repertoire of large orchestral works of the turn of the century - works which seem most obviously to escape the categories of conventional analysis. This study uses a semiotic theory of signification in order to investigate different types of musical communication. Musical meaning is defined on several levels from structures immanent to the work, through questions of tradition and genre, to consideration of the symphony as a narrative alongside other contemporary non-musical texts. Ideas from Eco, Barthes, and Derrida are deployed within the context of close analysis of the score in order to unite specifically analytical insights with cultural hermeneutics.
Mahler's Sixth Symphony features in the following genres: Musicians, singers, bands and groups
Mahler's Sixth Symphony is available in Hardback
Mahler's Sixth Symphony was written by Robert Samuels and published by Cambridge University Press
Mahler's Sixth Symphony has 175 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis series