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. |
Contents
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2 The Literary Source of Topic Theory | 11 |
3 Signifier and Signified in Music | 20 |
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 |
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