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Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics
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In this groundbreaking, historically-informed semiotic study of late eighteenth-century music, Stephen Rumph focuses on Mozart to explore musical meaning within the context of Enlightenment sign an...
In this groundbreaking, historically-informed semiotic study of late eighteenth-century music, Stephen Rumph focuses on Mozart to explore musical meaning within the context of Enlightenment sign and language theory. Illuminating his discussion with French, British, German, and Italian writings on signs and language, Rumph analyzes movements from Mozart's symphonies, concertos, operas, and church music. He argues that Mozartian semiosis is best understood within the empiricist tradition of Condillac, Vico, Herder, or Adam Smith, which emphasized the constitutive role of signs within human cogni.
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- English
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011
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- 1 online resource (284 pages)
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- 9780520950115, 0520950119, 9780520260863, 0520260864, 9780520260863
- OCLC
- ocn774278962
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index.
- Cover; Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epiograph; Contents; List of Music Examples; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. From Rhetoric to Semiotics; 2. The Sense of Touch in Don Giovanni; 3. Topics in Context; 4. Mozart and Marxism; 5. A Dubious Credo; 6. Archaic Endings; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index