Author | Kramer, Lawrence, 1946- |
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Title | Musical meaning [electronic resource] : toward a critical history / Lawrence Kramer |
Imprint | Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002 |
Connect to | http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=90525 |
Descript | ix, 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
Hermeneutics and musical history: a primer without rules, an exercise with Schubert -- Hands on, lights off: the Moonlight Sonata and the birth of sex at the piano -- Beyond words and music: an essay on songfulness -- Franz Liszt and the virtuoso public sphere: sight and sound in the rise of mass entertainment -- Rethinking Schumann's Carnaval: identity, meaning, and the social order -- Glottis envy: the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera -- Hercules' hautboys: mixed media and musical meaning -- The voice of Persephone: musical meaning and mixed media -- Powers of blackness: jazz and the blues in modern concert music -- Long ride in a slow machine: the alienation effect from Weill to Shostakovich -- Chiaroscuro: Coltrane's American songbook -- Ghost stories: cultural memory, mourning, and the myth of originality