Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music [Paperback]

This book presents the work of a group of scholars who, without seeking to impose an explicit redefinition of either theory or analysis, explore the limits of both.There have been far-reaching changes in the way that music theorists and analysts view their discipline. Without seeking to impose an explicit redefinition of either analysis or theory, the contributors explore the limits of both. Essays on the language of analysis and theory combine with studies of works by Debussy, Schoenberg, Birtwistle and Boulez.There have been far-reaching changes in the way that music theorists and analysts view their discipline. Without seeking to impose an explicit redefinition of either analysis or theory, the contributors explore the limits of both. Essays on the language of analysis and theory combine with studies of works by Debussy, Schoenberg, Birtwistle and Boulez.Recent encounters with structuralist and poststructuralist critical theory, linguistics, and cognitive sciences have brought the theory and analysis of music into the orbit of important developments in present-day intellectual history. Without seeking to impose an explicit redefinition of either theory or analysis, this book explores the limits of both. Essays on decidability, ambiguity, metaphor, music as text, and music analysis as cognitive theory are complemented by studies of works by Debussy, Schoenberg, Birtwistle and Boulez.Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Part I. Languages: 1. Metaphor in Roger Scruton's aesthetics of music Naomi Cumming; 2. Competing myths: the American abandonment of Schenker's organicism Robert Snarrenberg; 3. Rehabilitating the incorrigible Marion A. Guck; Part II. Decisions: 4. Criteria of correctness in music theory and analysis Jonathan Dunsby; 5. Ambiguity in tonal music: a preliminary study Kofi Agawu; 6. Systems and strategies: functions and limits of analysis Anthony Pople; Part III. Texts: 7. Debussy's significant connections: metaphor and metonymy in analytical methol“$