Musical Meaning and Interpretation : Perspectives, Reflections, Critique

著者名：Puri, Michael J. (EDT)/Geary, Jason (EDT)/Monahan, Seth (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2025/03/28発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780197601297
• eISBN：9780197601303

Description

Revived with new intensity 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 genres--classical, jazz, and popular--to offer fresh perspectives on a concern that bestrides every area of musical scholarship.While many accounts of musical meaning tend to limit and constrain, Musical Meaning and Interpretation contends that music's capacity to mean is virtually limitless and therefore resists clean and orderly taxonomies. Taken together, the essays attest to this nearly infinite variety of ways in which music may mean. Individually, they explore the intellectual underpinnings of rotational form, the mysterious agencies that populate our hermeneutic discourse, and the significance of pleasure in the interpretive act, among other topics, along with extended discussions of music by Beethoven, Chabrier, Unsuk Chin, Coltrane, Stephen Foster, Mahler, and Chou Wen-chung. Rooted in humanistic values, the essays combine rich analytical insights with critical perspectives on meaning and hermeneutics, arguing collectively for the strength, necessity, and urgency of interpretive work in music.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresAbout the Companion WebsiteContributorsIntroduction: Toward New Horizons: Music, Shared Understanding, and the Search for MeaningMichael J. Puri, Jason Geary, and Seth Monahan METHODOLOGIES1: "Rituals of Circularity": On the Intellectual Underpinnings of Rotational FormMichael J. Puri2: The Devil's on Your Side: On The Shady Business of HermeneuticsPhil Ford 3: Pleasure, Knowledge, and Social Commitment RevisitedSteven Rings CASE STUDIES IN RECEPTION4: Chabrier and the PittoresqueAlexandra Kieffer5: Beethoven's Late Quartets as Absolute Music in Modern SocietySanna Pederson 6: A Century of Singing Along to Stephen FosterEsther M. Morgan-Ellis HERMENEUTICS IN ACTION7: Mining for Meaning with Late Beethoven: Cultural Units, Dialogic Form, and the Hermeneutic Project (with Glosses on Opp. 101, 110, and 111)Vasili Byros8: The NaÏve and the Sentimental as Cultural Memory in Mahler's First SymphonyJason Geary9: Ritual and Variation in Unsuk Chin's %Su: Concerto for Sheng and Orchestra (2009)Yayoi Uno Everett10: Inter-Asia Imaginings: Chou Wen-chung's Eternal PineNancy Yunhwa Rao11: "The Sweet Fragrance of Life": Mortality and Rebirth in Mahler's "Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde"Seth MonahanSelected BibliographyIndex