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- The Musical Topic: Hunt, Military and Pastoral
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: Indiana University Press
- Series: Musical Meaning and Interpretation
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The Musical Topic discusses three tropes prominently featured in Western European music: the hunt, the military, and the pastoral. Raymond Monelle provides an in-depth cultural and historical study of musical topics -- short melodic figures, harmonic or rhythmic formulae carrying literal or lexical meaning -- through consideration of their origin, thematization, manifestation, and meaning. The Musical Topic shows the connections of musical meaning to literature, social history, and the fine arts.
Table of Contents
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- List of Plates
- p. viii
- 1. Topic and Expression
- pp. 3-10
- 3. Signifier and Signified in Music
- pp. 20-32
- Part Two: Huntsmen
- p. 33
- 4. Signifier: The Hunting Horn
- pp. 35-58
- 6. Musical Hunts
- pp. 72-94
- 7. The Topic Established
- pp. 95-110
- Part Three: Soldiers
- p. 111
- 8. The Military Signifier: 1. The March
- pp. 113-133
- 10. The Military Signified
- pp. 142-159
- 11. The Soldier Represented
- pp. 160-181
- Part Four: Shepherds
- p. 183
- 12. The Pastoral Signified: The Myth
- pp. 185-206
- 13. The Pastoral Signifier
- pp. 207-228
- 14. The Pastoral in Music
- pp. 229-250
- 15. New Pastorals
- pp. 251-271
- 16. Epilogue
- pp. 272-273
- Appendix 1
- pp. 275-279
- Appendix 2
- pp. 281-290
- Bibliography
- pp. 291-298
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