Speaking of Music: Addressing the Sonorous

Published by Fordham University Press 2013

Speaking of Music

Addressing the Sonorous

Edited by: Keith Chapin and Andrew H. Clark

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292615

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About this book

People chat about music every day, but they also treat it as a limit, as the boundary of what is sayable. By addressing different perspectives and traditions that form and inform the speaking of music in Western culture—musical, literary, philosophical, semiotic, political—this volume offers a unique snapshot of today’s scholarship on speech about music. The range of considerations and material is wide. Among others, they include the words used to interpret musical works (such as those of Beethoven), the words used to channel musical practices (whether Bach’s, Rousseau’s, or Hispanic political protesters’), and the words used to represent music (whether in a dialogue by Plato, in a story by Balzac, or in an Italian popular song). The contributors consider the ways that music may slide by words, as in the performance of an Akpafu dirge or in Messiaen, and the ways that music may serve as an embodied figure, as in the writings of Diderot or in the sound and body art of Henri Chopin. The book concludes with an essay by Jean-Luc Nancy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Speaking of Music: A View across Disciplines and a Lexicon of Topoi Keith Chapin and Andrew H. Clark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Speaking of Music Lawrence Kramer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Waiting for the Death Knell: Speaking of Music (So to Speak) Laura Odello Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Bach’s Silence, Matthe son’s Words: Professional and Humanist Ways of Speaking of Music Keith Chapin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Making Music Speak Andrew H. Clark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Rousseau: Music, Language, and Politics Tracy B. Strong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
Listening to Music Lawrence M. Zbikowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Mi manca la voce: How Balzac Talks Music—or How Music Takes Place—in Massimilla Doni John T. Hamilton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Speaking of Music in the Romantic Era: Dynamic and Resistant Aspects of Musical Genre Matthew Gelbart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Weather Reports: Discourse and Musical Cognition Per Aage Brandt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Messiaen, Deleuze, and the Birds of Proclamation Sander van Maas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Parole, parole: Tautegory and the Musicology of the (Pop) Song Peter Szendy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Speaking of Microsound: The Bodies of Henri Chopin Kiene Brillenburg Wurth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
On the Ethics of the Unspeakable Jairo Moreno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Récit Recitation Recitative Jean-Luc Nancy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 344
Illustrations
- Other: 11 Illustrations, black and white

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9780823292615