"Kofi Agawu's Music as Discourse promises to quickly become a standard and definitive work in musical semiotics. Working at the nexus of musicology, ethnomusicology, and music philosophy and aesthetics, Agawu presents a synthetic and innovative approach to musical meaning which …
The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. This book presents a synthetic and innovative approach to musical meaning which argues deftly for the thinking of music as a discourse in its…
Starting from an all-encompassing viewpoint--a belief in the importance and necessity of logical analysis of the musical experience, and the study of objective data derived therefrom--it moves toward a deeper understanding of musical structure and experience through a systematic…
Starting from an all-encompassing viewpoint--a belief in the importance and necessity of logical analysis of the musical experience, and the study of objective data derived therefrom---it moves toward a deeper understanding of musical structure and experience through a systemati…
This is a study in the analysis of tonal music. Focusing on the listener's experience, author Steven Rings employs transformational music theory to illuminate diverse aspects of tonal hearing - from the infusion of sounding pitches with familiar tonal qualities to sensations of …
