Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music (Oxford Studies in Music Theory) by Kofi Agawu
English | Dec 2, 2008 | ISBN: 0195370244 | 352 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. Is music a language? Does it communicate specific ideas and emotions? What does music mean, and how does this meaning occur?