Description
Book SynopsisHow meaning has been made in music throughout history
Trade ReviewA dozen essays await in this most recent gathering of Leo Treitler's writings, each teeming with ideas and together inviting us to follow one of musicology's most engaged thinkers in a sustained examination of what he calls the 'awesome task of representing music'.
* Nineteenth-Century Music Review *
Nov 2012
* Music & Letters *
This is a compendium of writings by one of the most original thinkers in musicology . . . Treitler stands every issue on its head and shakes well to expose a viewpoint about musical meaning . . . Highly recommended.
* Choice *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
I. Language
1. Language and the Interpretation of Music
2. Being at a Loss for Words
3. Beethoven's "Expressive" Markings
II. Performance-
4. The Immanence of Performance in Medieval Song
5. Early Recorded Performances of Chopin Waltzes and Mazurkas: The Relation to the Text
III. Notation
6. What Kind of Thing is Musical Notation?
7. Sketching Music, Writing Music
IV. Interpretative Frames
8. The Lulu Character and the Character of Lulu
9. History and Archetypes
10. Gender and Other Dualities of Music History
11. Hermeneutics, Exegetics, or What?
12. Facile Metaphors, Hidden Gaps, Short Circuits: Should We Adore Adorno?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
