Is language a music? : writings on musical form and signification / David Lidov

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-252) and index

-- Is language a music? -- Structuralist perspectives. Structure and function in musical repetition The Allegretto of Beethoven's Seventh Mediation as a principle of musical form : three examples -- Semiotic polemics. Nattiez's foundations for musical semiotics Our time with the druids : what (and how) we can recuperate from our obsession with segmental hierarchies and other "tree structures" Why we still need Peirce -- From gestures to discourses. Mind and body in music Opera operta : realism and rehabilitation in La traviata A monument in song (1996) : Beverly (Buffy) Sainte-Marie's "Bury my heart at Wounded Knee" -- The messages of methods. Bartók the progressive The art of music theory and the aesthetic category of the possible Technique and signification in the twelve-tone method The project of abstraction and the persistence of the figure in twentieth-century music and painting : on the music of Elliott Carter, with a postscript on the Ninth symphony of Beethoven -- Resisting representation. Replaying my voice mail