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Product Description: Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyze the so-called Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this condition...read more

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9780691631523 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
9780691091389 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 1, 1991, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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9780691601922 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: Unsayable Music presents theoretical, critical and analytical reflections on key topics of contemporary music―including acoustic, electroacoustic, and digital music―and audiovisual and multimedia composition. Six essays by Paulo C...read more

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9789058679949 | Leuven Univ Pr, October 21, 2014, cover price $69.50 | About this edition: Unsayable Music presents theoretical, critical and analytical reflections on key topics of contemporary music―including acoustic, electroacoustic, and digital music―and audiovisual and multimedia composition.

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Product Description: Daughter of Athenian and Guardian, a forbidden pairing of the two dominant species on Athena, Saphora is the key to the war's end and the tool in the start of another. Each species on their own hold tremendous power. But combined, should Saphora survive its capacity like none before her, her power could mean supremacy...read more

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9780333642887, titled "Speech, Music, Sound" | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1999, cover price $55.01 | also contains Speech, Music, Sound | About this edition: This book explores what speech, music and other sounds have in common.

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9781496054067 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 24, 2014, cover price $16.10 | About this edition: Daughter of Athenian and Guardian, a forbidden pairing of the two dominant species on Athena, Saphora is the key to the war's end and the tool in the start of another.

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Product Description: This comprehensive volume offers a wide-ranging perspective on the stories that art music has told since the start of the 20th century. Contributors challenge the broadly held opinion that the loss of tonality in some music after 1900 also meant the loss of narrative in that music...read more
By Michael L. Klein (editor) and Nicholas Reyland (editor)

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9780253006448 | Indiana Univ Pr, November 26, 2012, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This comprehensive volume offers a wide-ranging perspective on the stories that art music has told since the start of the 20th century.

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Product Description: Music intrudes to our most intimate subjectivity, thus making it a privileged field to which so-called ""existential semiotics"", a new theory and philosophy developed by the author himself, may be applied. Using new semiotic methods and analyses as the fulcrum of its approaches, the volume aims to clarify why great classical composers from Mozart and Beethoven to Brahms and Wagner fascinate music listeners and lovers from all cultures of the world...read more

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9781614511540 | Mouton De Gruyter, October 1, 2012, cover price $210.00 | About this edition: Music intrudes to our most intimate subjectivity, thus making it a privileged field to which so-called ""existential semiotics"", a new theory and philosophy developed by the author himself, may be applied.

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By Prima Games (corporate author)

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9780253213938, titled "The Sonic Self: Musical Subjectivity and Signification" | Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $55.01 | also contains The Sonic Self: Musical Subjectivity and Signification

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9780307894311 | Prima Games, March 20, 2012, cover price $7.99

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9780520260863 | Univ of California Pr, October 18, 2011, cover price $85.00

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9780253352385 | Indiana Univ Pr, November 5, 2008, cover price $39.95

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9783039117185 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, August 31, 2008, cover price $93.95

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Product Description: Andrew Shenton's groundbreaking cross-disciplinary approach to Messiaen's music presents a systematic and detailed examination of the compositional techniques of one of the most significant musicians of the twentieth century as they relate to his desire to express profound truths about Catholicism...read more

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9780754661689 | Ashgate Pub Co, February 1, 2008, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Andrew Shenton's groundbreaking cross-disciplinary approach to Messiaen's music presents a systematic and detailed examination of the compositional techniques of one of the most significant musicians of the twentieth century as they relate to his desire to express profound truths about Catholicism.

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9783039112821 | 1 edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, April 30, 2007), cover price $93.95

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Product Description: Approaches to Meaning in Music presents a survey of the problems and issues inherent in pursuing meaning and signification in music, and attempts to rectify the conundrums that have plagued philosophers, artists, and theorists since the time of Pythagoras...read more
By Byron Almen (editor) and Edward Pearsall (editor)

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9780253347923 | Indiana Univ Pr, November 1, 2006, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Approaches to Meaning in Music presents a survey of the problems and issues inherent in pursuing meaning and signification in music, and attempts to rectify the conundrums that have plagued philosophers, artists, and theorists since the time of Pythagoras.

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Product Description: Nineteenth-century composers were drawn to subjects related to gender. Songs about women open a view into nineteenth-century understandings of gender and sexuality. The author argues about ways to hear sexual difference in Lied, analyzing musical compositions in the light of composer biographies and in terms of musical gestures...read more

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9780820481579 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 30, 2006, cover price $85.95 | About this edition: Nineteenth-century composers were drawn to subjects related to gender.

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Product Description: Jairo Moreno adapts the methodologies and nomenclature of Foucault’s "archaeology of knowledge" and applies it through individual case studies to the theoretical writings of Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber. His conclusion summarizes the conditions―musical, philosophical, and historical―that "make a certain form of thought about music necessary and possible at the time it emerges...read more

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9780253344571 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 15, 2004, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Jairo Moreno adapts the methodologies and nomenclature of Foucault’s "archaeology of knowledge" and applies it through individual case studies to the theoretical writings of Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber.

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Product Description: "Hatten’s interpretations are at times surprisingly poetic in their expression.... In his book he effectively creates an interaction between aspects of music theory, analysis, aesthetics and semiotics. His work yields some novel insights that deserve careful consideration from anyone in these fields...read more

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9780253327420 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $34.95

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9780253217110 | Indiana Univ Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: "Hatten’s interpretations are at times surprisingly poetic in their expression.

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Product Description: In this collection of previously unpublished essays Jean-Jacques Nattiez applies his theoretical foundations of musical semiotics to theorists such as Lévi-Strauss, Hanslick, and Brailoiu; novelists such as Proust; and poets such as Baudelaire...read more

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9780198166108 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 9, 2004, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: In this collection of previously unpublished essays Jean-Jacques Nattiez applies his theoretical foundations of musical semiotics to theorists such as Lévi-Strauss, Hanslick, and Brailoiu; novelists such as Proust; and poets such as Baudelaire.

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Product Description: The terms of structuralist and post-structuralist theory have been widely debated within the field of music analysis in recent years. However, very few analyses have attempted to address the repertoire of large orchestral works of the turn of the century - works which seem most obviously to escape the categories of conventional analysis...read more

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9780521481663 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 26, 1996, cover price $78.99 | About this edition: The terms of structuralist and post-structuralist theory have been widely debated within the field of music analysis in recent years.

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9780521602839 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $49.99 | About this edition: The terms of structuralist and post-structuralist theory have been widely debated within the field of music analysis in recent years.

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Product Description: Each of the constituents of the operatic sign (libretto and music) contributes to the process of signification in its own way. We, the audience, are supposed to put the pieces together into a coherent reading of the opera. In this book, this process is first explored and subsequently applied to Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice...read more

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9789051667868 | Eburon B V, February 15, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Each of the constituents of the operatic sign (libretto and music) contributes to the process of signification in its own way.

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Product Description: Music is said to be the most autonomous and least representative of all the arts. However, it reflects in many ways the realities around it and influences its social and cultural environments. Music is as much biology, gender, gesture - something intertextual, even transcendental...read more

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9783110172263 | Mouton De Gruyter, April 1, 2003, cover price $196.00 | About this edition: Music is said to be the most autonomous and least representative of all the arts.

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9783110172270 | Mouton De Gruyter, March 1, 2003, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Music is said to be the most autonomous and least representative of all the arts.

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9780253337542 | Indiana Univ Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $39.99
9780253213938 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $55.01 | also contains Codes & Cheats 2012: Prima Game Guide

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