The why of Music: Dialogues in an Unexplored Region of AppreciationU of Minnesota Press - 309 pages |
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... communication that language conveys , every- body would call the analogy false . There just aren't any " words " in music , and its process of communication must be altogether different . You've pretty well convinced me that music does ...
... communication that language conveys , every- body would call the analogy false . There just aren't any " words " in music , and its process of communication must be altogether different . You've pretty well convinced me that music does ...
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... communication may be seen as the language of the emotions . I. I don't think the notion is wholly absurd . Isn't ... communicate that image adequately , must in some degree be the language of emotion . F. That seems true enough , but ...
... communication may be seen as the language of the emotions . I. I don't think the notion is wholly absurd . Isn't ... communicate that image adequately , must in some degree be the language of emotion . F. That seems true enough , but ...
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Contents
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THE MUSICAL IMAGE | 31 |
HOW THE MUSICAL IMAGE IS PORTRAYED | 45 |
HOW FORM CONTRIBUTES TO THE IMAGE | 58 |
SOME HOWS AND WHYS OF MUSICAL COMPOSITION | 75 |
SOME HOWS AND WHYS OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE | 87 |
STYLE AND TASTE | 99 |
THE SECOND PERIOD | 165 |
THE THIRD PERIOD | 183 |
VERBAL AND MUSICAL IMAGES IN THE SONG | 197 |
THE MUSICAL IMAGE IN THE LEADINGMOTIVE | 220 |
TWO NEW QUESTIONERS | 240 |
A COMMON MUSICAL IDIOM | 254 |
WHAT MAKES GOOD MUSIC GREAT? | 277 |
EPILOGUE OR PREFACE? | 290 |
IMAGE AND STYLE IN BACH | 114 |
CLASSICISM IN HAYDN AND MOZART | 129 |
ROMANTICISM IN BEETHOVEN | 147 |
INDEX | 303 |
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The Why of Music: Dialogues in an Unexplored Region of Appreciation Donald N. Ferguson Limited preview - 1969 |
The why of Music: Dialogues in an Unexplored Region of Appreciation Donald Nivison Ferguson No preview available - 1969 |
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actual Adagio anyhow appropriate arpeggio attitude Bach Bach's Beethoven begin certainly chord classicism communication composer concern contribution course definition delight discriminate dodecaphony emotion Example extramusical fact feel flat minor fugue harmony hear heard hypothesis idea idiom image of experience imagine implied increment inference interest isorhythm kind Kyrie least listener look meaning melody Menuetto merely mind minor Mmmm motive movement Mozart musical image nonmusical experience notes notion object pattern performance perhaps phrase piano piece play poem portray portrayal Prelude pretty purely musical question reference rhythm rhythmic rience romantic romantic music romanticism romanticist second theme seems seen sense sonata sonata form song sort sound structure style subdominant substance suggest suppose sure talk tang taste buds there's thing thought tion tonal tension tone trying twelve-tone twelve-tone system twelve-tone technique verbal image vivid Well-tempered Clavier whole words
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