How is it possible to talk or write about music? What is the link between graphic signs and music? What makes music meaningful? In this book, distinguished scholar Leo Treitler explores the relationships among language, musical notation, performance, compositional practice, and patterns of culture in the presentation and representation of music. Treitler engages a wide variety of historical sources to discuss works from medieval plainchant to Berg's opera Lulu and a range of music in between.

How meaning has been made in music throughout history

About the Author

Leo Treitler is Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus, CUNY Graduate Center, and Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Reviews

A dozen essays await in this most recent gathering of Leo Treitler's writings, each teeming with ideas and together inviting us to follow one of musicology's most engaged thinkers in a sustained examination of what he calls the 'awesome task of representing music'.

* Nineteenth-Century Music Review *

Nov 2012

* Music & Letters *

This is a compendium of writings by one of the most original thinkers in musicology . . . Treitler stands every issue on its head and shakes well to expose a viewpoint about musical meaning . . . Highly recommended.

* Choice *



Book Information
ISBN 9780253223166
Author Leo Treitler
Format Paperback
Page Count 334
Imprint Indiana University Press
Publisher Indiana University Press
Weight(grams) 454g