Interpreting Musical Gestures Topics and Trope by Robert S. Hatten HARDBACK

Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and TropesMozart, Beethoven, Schubert\nAuthor(s): Robert S. Hatten\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253344595, 978-0253344595\nSynopsis\n\""Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions of musical meaning. . . . [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them are timely and to the point. Musical scholars in both musicology and theory will find much of value here, and will find their notions of musical meaning challenged and expanded.\"" Patrick McCreless\n\n This book continues to develop the semiotic theory of musical meaning presented in Robert S. Hatten's first book, Musical Meaning in Beethoven (IUP, 1994). In addition to expanding theories of markedness, topics, and tropes, Hatten offers a fresh contribution to the understanding of musicar