Musical Rhetoric: Foundations and Annotation Schemes [Hardcover]

Discourse analysis and rhetoric are very much developed in communication, linguistics, cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Besides theoretical investigations, discourse analysis is central in a number of application areas such as dialogue and negotiation, the semantic web, question answering or authoring systems. Music is also a natural language, more abstract and mathematical, which follows very strict construction principles. However, there is very limited and no recent literature on Music Discourse analysis using computational principles. This book aims at developing a central issue in musical discourse: modeling rhetoric and argumentation. It also contributes to the development of high-level multimedia annotation schemes for non-verbal communication.

PREFACE xi

CHAPTER 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL RHETORIC 1???????????????

1.1. A few basic definitions 2

1.2. The structure of rhetoric 4????????

1.2.1. Rhetoric and communication 5??????

1.2.2. The structure of classical rhetoric 6

1.2.3. The invention step 7

1.2.4. The arrangement 9

1.2.5. The style or elocution step 12

1.2.6. The delivery or action 14

1.2.7. The facets of rhetoric 15

1.3. Some figures of speech 17

1.3.1. Introduction 17

1.3.2. The major figures of speech of interest in music rhetoric 18

1.4. Argumentation and explanation 21

1.5. Conclusion: a few historical milestones of traditional rhetoric 25

1.6. A few historical references for classical rhetoric 28

CHAPTER 2. LANGUAGE, MUSIC AND THE RHETORIC DISCOURSE 31

2.1. Music and language 31

2.1.1. On the relations betweel£'