The Musical Topic: Hunt, Military and PastoralIndiana University Press, 2006 M09 21 - 304 pages The Musical Topic discusses three tropes prominently featured in Western European music: the hunt, the military, and the pastoral. Raymond Monelle provides an in-depth cultural and historical study of musical topics -- short melodic figures, harmonic or rhythmic formulae carrying literal or lexical meaning -- through consideration of their origin, thematization, manifestation, and meaning. The Musical Topic shows the connections of musical meaning to literature, social history, and the fine arts. |
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... Players 134 10. The Military Signi¤ed 142 11. The Soldier Represented 160 part four: shepherds 12. The Pastoral Signi¤ed: The Myth 185 13. The Pastoral Signi¤er 207 14. The Pastoral in Music 229 15. New Pastorals 251 16. Epilogue 272 ...
... Players 134 10. The Military Signi¤ed 142 11. The Soldier Represented 160 part four: shepherds 12. The Pastoral Signi¤ed: The Myth 185 13. The Pastoral Signi¤er 207 14. The Pastoral in Music 229 15. New Pastorals 251 16. Epilogue 272 ...
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... Player of the double aulós. Red-¤gure painting on a drinking bowl, ca. 480 b.c. Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich. 5. Titian, The Three Ages of Man, detail. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. 6. The angel's visitation to the ...
... Player of the double aulós. Red-¤gure painting on a drinking bowl, ca. 480 b.c. Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich. 5. Titian, The Three Ages of Man, detail. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. 6. The angel's visitation to the ...
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Contents
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Huntsmen | 33 |
The Hunting Horn | 35 |
Hunts Noble and Ignoble | 59 |
6 Musical Hunts | 72 |
7 The Topic Established | 95 |
Shepherds | 183 |
The Myth | 185 |
13 The Pastoral Signifier | 207 |
14 The Pastoral in Music | 229 |
15 New Pastorals | 251 |
16 Epilogue | 272 |
Appendix 1 | 275 |
Appendix 2 | 281 |
Soldiers | 111 |
1 The March | 113 |
2 The Military Trumpet and Its Players | 134 |
10 The Military Signified | 142 |
11 The Soldier Represented | 160 |
Bibliography | 291 |
Index | 299 |
Back cover | 307 |
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alla breve alphorn aria army associations auloi aulós Bach’s bagpipe bands bass Beethoven’s bicinia Brahms’s brass bugle Cantata chasse chie®y chorus collection composer concert contemporary cultural unit Dampierre dance drones drum echo eighteenth century evocation evoke example fanfare Figure folksong French genre German gure halali harmonic Haydn’s horn calls horse hounds hunt topic hunting calls hunting horn huntsmen imitation infantry instrument later literary Mahler’s melody meter military signal military topic modern musette musical topic musicians natural horn nature noble oboes octave of¤cers opera orchestral oxhorn parforce pastoral peasants pedal point perhaps piano piece pifferari played players poem poet Pöschl posthorn quoted re®ected reference repertoire resembles rhythm Romantic rst movement rustic scene semiotic shawm shepherds siciliana signi¤er simple singing soldiers solo song sound speci¤cally spirit stag strings style Symphony syrinx theme Theocritus tradition triadic trumpet calls trumpet signals tune violin words writes zampogna
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