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"Is Language a Music?" presents broadly ranging explorations of musical reference that address how and why language cannot be the only measure of meanings. Music, the author insists, is pervaded by significations, but often their erasure is as pertinent to artistry as their construction. This volume's 15 essays in musical semiotics are grouped into sections that treat issues in structural description, present alternative views of theoretical foundations, consider the elaboration of gestural references to form musical discourse, explore some stylistic issues in 20th-century music, and examine the resistance to reference which is esteemed in the tradition of absolute music.

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Book category Books in English The arts Music Theory of music & musicology

• Full title: Is Language a Music?
• Author: David Lidov
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780253343833
• ISBN: 0253343836
• ID: 04871551
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 560 g
• Dimensions: 165 × 242 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2004

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