TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lidov,David
ED  - Indiana University.
TI  - Is language a music?: writings on musical form and signification 
T2  - Musical meaning and interpretation
SN  - 0253343836
AV  - ML3845 .L53 2005
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Music
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Music and language
N1  - 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
ER  -