{"product_id":"playing-with-signs-a-semiotic-interpretation-of-classic-music-9780691601922","title":"Playing with Signs  A Semiotic Interpretation of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyze the so-called Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this condition. Playing with Signs proposes a listener-oriented theory of Classic instrumental music th\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is extraordinarily rich in suggestion. Ideas are imported from Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes, David Lidov, Edward Said... This is eclecticism at its most erudite and liberal.\"--Music and Letters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi*ONE. Introduction, pg. 1*TWO. Extroversive Semiosis: Topics as Signs, pg. 26*THREE. Introversive Semiosis: The Beginning-Middle-End Paradigm, pg. 51*FOUR. A Semiotic Interpretation of the First Movement of Mozart's String Quintet in C Major, K. 515, pg. 80*FIVE. A Semiotic Interpretation of the First Movement of Haydn's String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2, pg. 100*SIX. A Semiotic Interpretation of the First Movement of Beethoven's String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132, pg. 110*SEVEN. Toward a Semiotic Theory for the Interpretation of Classic Music, pg. 127*EIGHT. Epilogue: A Semiotic Interpretation of Romantic Music, pg. 135*REFERENCES, pg. 145*INDEX, pg. 151","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49922419654999,"sku":"9780691601922","price":25.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/playing-with-signs-a-semiotic-interpretation-of-classic-music-9780691601922","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}