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Book SynopsisThis book is devoted to music analysis as an interpretive activity. Interpretation is often considered only in theory, or as a philosophical problem, but this book attempts to demonstrate and reflect on the interpretive results of analysis. It is the first book designed to emphasise the practical results of interpretive thinking about musical structure.
Trade Review'A brief review cannot hope to do individual justice to the constituent essays.' David Wright, The Musical Times
Table of Contents1. Introduction: different trains Craig Ayrey; Part I. Translations: 2. Stravinsky's symphonies: accident or design? Stephen Walsh; 3. Transcription and recomposition: the strange case of Zemlinsky's Maeterlinck songs Derrick Puffett; 4. Symphony or symphonic scenes: issues of structure and context in Schumann's 'Rhenish' Symphony Michael Musgrave; 5. The poetry of Debussy's En blanc et noir Jonathan Dunsby; 6. Poem as non-verbal text: Elliott Carter's Concerto for Orchestra and Saint-John Perse's Winds Jonathan W. Bernard; Part II. Rhetorics: 7. Birtwistle's secret theatres Jonathan Cross; 8. The narrative impulse in the second Nachtmusik from Mahler's Seventh Symphony Kopi Agawu; 9. 'Von heute auf morgen': Schoenberg and the New Criticism Alan Street; 10. Misleading voices: contrasts and continuities in Stravinsky studies Anthony Pople; 11. Immortal voices, mortal forms Carolyn Abbate; 12. So who are you? Webern's Op. 3, No. 1 David Griffiths.
