Musical meaning and interpretation : perspectives, reflections, critique
Michael J. Puri (Editor), Jason Geary (Editor), Seth Monahan (Editor)
"Posed with fervor at the end of the twentieth century, questions of meaning and interpretation in music continue to generate widespread interest and give rise to new research directions and methods. This collection of essays brings together leading musicologists and music theorists working across a range of styles, including classical, jazz, and popular, to offer fresh perspectives on meaning and interpretation, and thereby to reassess and refine an approach that continues to occupy a central place in the field. But whereas many accounts of musical meaning tend to limit and constrain, this book contends that music's capacity to mean is virtually limitless and therefore resists clean and orderly taxonomies"-- Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2025
Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2025