The musical topic : hunt, military and pastoral
The Musical Topic discusses three tropes prominently featured in Western European music: the hunt, the military, and the pastoral. Raymond Monelle provides an in-depth cultural and historical study of musical topics -- short melodic figures, harmonic or rhythmic formulae carrying literal or lexical meaning -- through consideration of their origin, thematization, manifestation, and meaning. The Musical Topic shows the connections of musical meaning to literature, social history, and the fine arts
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xi, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, music
9780253112361, 0253112362
290477276
Topic theory. Topic and expression ; The literary source of topic theory ; Signifier and signified in music
Huntsmen. Signifier : the hunting horn ; Signified : hunts noble and ignoble ; Musical hunts ; The topic established
Soldiers. The military signifier : 1. The march ; The military signifier : 2. The military trumpet and its players ; The military signified ; The soldier represented
Shepherds. The pastoral signified : the myth ; The pastoral signifier ; The pastoral in music ; New pastorals ; Epilogue
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