Musicology: the Key Concepts provides a vital reference guide for students of contemporary
musicology. Its clear and accessible entries cover a comprehensive range of terms …

This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a
musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nineteenth century; …

" The scholarship of Michael Spitzer's new book is impressive and thorough. The writing is
impeccable and the coverage extensive. The book treats the history of the use of metaphor …

The silent attentiveness expected of concert audiences is one of the most distinctive
characteristics of modern Western musical culture. This is the first book to examine the …

This study reconstructs FWJ Schelling's philosophy of language based on a detailed reading
of § 73 of Schelling's lectures on the Philosophy of Art. Daniel Whistler argues that the …

What does it mean to think of Western Art music-and the Austro-German contribution to that
repertory-as a tradition? How are men and masculinities implicated in the shaping of that …

An international group of contributors, including leading authorities on music and culture,
come together in this volume to investigate different ways in which music signifies. Looking …

One of the most compelling views of nineteenth‐century sonata form focuses on process
rather than on predetermined harmonic or thematic models. A parallel is to be found …

R? sum? The subject of musical ono matopoeia, or imitation of environmental sounds by
musical instruments, has long been dismissed as marginal and unimportant in the con text of …

Le plus souvent, la pratique de l'analyse de la musique tonale repose sur l'idée qu'une
œuvre est un tout parfaitement logique et ordonné. Le dévoilement de la cohérence de …