Music as Message: An Introduction to Musical Semantics
Author:   Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch ,  Constantin Floros
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
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9783631660331


Pages:   339
Publication Date:   27 February 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch ,  Constantin Floros
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9783631660331


ISBN 10:   3631660332
Pages:   339
Publication Date:   27 February 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents: The Concept of the Message in Music – Public and private Messages in Music – Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung – Wagner’s Idea of a Religion of Art – The Symphony of a Thousand – Basics of Program Music – 19th-Century Composer types – Music and Poetry – Berlioz’ Concept of the «Instrumental Drama» – Liszt’s Concept of the «Musical Epic» – Richard Strauss – Secret Program Music – On Gustav Mahler’s Wirkungsgeschichte – Music Must Become Language: On Hans Werner Henze – The Presence of All Eras: Messages through the Ages.

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About the German edition: The book is written in Floros' accustomed precise and exact style and is equipped with an exemplary scholarly apparatus. An indispensable handbook not only for musical semanticists but for anyone needing to be informed about current advances in the determination of the nature of music. (International Review for the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music)


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Constantin Floros is professor emeritus of Musicology at the University of Hamburg. Among his monographs are volumes on the origin of Gregorian neumes, Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alban Berg and György Ligeti. Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch is professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He has translated several books by Constantin Floros.

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