Speaking of Music – Addressing the Sonorous Chapin Clark Hardback 9780823251384

Speaking of MusicAddressing the Sonorous\nAuthor(s): Keith Chapin, Andrew H. Clark\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823251384, 978-0823251384\nSynopsis\nPeople chat about music every day, but they also treat it as a limit, as the boundary of what is sayable. By addressing different perspectives and traditions that form and inform the speaking of music in Western culturemusical, literary, philosophical, semiotic, politicalthis volume offers a unique snapshot of today's scholarship on speech about music. The range of considerations and material is wide. Among others, they include the words used to interpret musical works (such as those of Beethoven), the words used to channel musical practices (whether Bach's, Rousseau's, or Hispanic political protesters'), and the words used to represent music (whether in a dialogue by Plato, in a story by Balzac, or in an Italian popular song). The contributors cons.