Modernist movements : listening for topics in Schoenberg and Stravinsky /

Topic theory examines the lexicon of conventions that emerged in the late eighteenth century through which composers evoked dances, marches, hunting, the pastoral, and the supernatural. While scholars have explored ad hoc applications of the theory in later repertories, author Johanna Frymoyer begin...

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Frymoyer, Johanna
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
Topic theory examines the lexicon of conventions that emerged in the late eighteenth century through which composers evoked dances, marches, hunting, the pastoral, and the supernatural. While scholars have explored ad hoc applications of the theory in later repertories, author Johanna Frymoyer begins with fundamental methodological questions of if, why, and how analysts ought to apply topic theory - a method tailored to eighteenth-century historical and aesthetic contingencies - to modernist repertory. Advancing topic theory beyond its foundations in semiotics to incorporate insights from cognition, Frymoyer argues that topical identification and interpretation are governed by mental categories and prototypicality effects, and that topics function as mnemonics of bodily movement (such as dance).
Umfang:
1 online resource (403 pages)
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-764137-7
0-19-764135-0
Schlagworte:
Stravinsky, Igor, > 1882-1971 > Criticism and interpretation.
Schoenberg, Arnold, > 1874-1951 > Criticism and interpretation.
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