Music as Message

Constantin Floros

ISBN 10: 3631660332 / ISBN 13: 9783631660331

Editore: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Feb 2016, 2016

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Neuware -Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and political ideas. Countless composers encrypt contents in their music that can be deciphered by a variety of methods. This book is designed as an introduction to the basic questions of musical semantics and discusses Beethoven¿s committed art, the core ideas of the «Ring of the Nibelung» and of the «Symphony of a Thousand», Wagner¿s idea of a religion of art, the relation of music and poetry, the musico-literary conceptions of composers, the large field of program music and the history of the impact of Gustav Mahler. 340 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Music as Message
• Editore: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Feb 2016
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3631660332
• ISBN 13: 9783631660331
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 216 L x 153 A x 22 P (millimetri) 216 millimetri di larghezza per 153 millimetri di altezza per 22 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 553 grammi

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Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and political ideas. Countless composers encrypt contents in their music that can be deciphered by a variety of methods. This book is designed as an introduction to the basic questions of musical semantics and discusses Beethoven’s committed art, the core ideas of the «Ring of the Nibelung» and of the «Symphony of a Thousand», Wagner’s idea of a religion of art, the relation of music and poetry, the musico-literary conceptions of composers, the large field of program music and the history of the impact of Gustav Mahler.

Informazioni sull?autore

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.