More than Meets the Ear: A Study of the Semantics of Music
- Author: Fischer, Gilbert R.
More than Meets the Ear' is welcome contribution to Music Appreciation Studies collections, as well as a 'must read' for advanced students of music —
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Contents
- Chapter 1 Preface
- Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
- Chapter 3 General Principles:
- Chapter 4 Roots and Sources. Music Games
- Chapter 5 The Game of Likenesses
- Chapter 6 The Sound of Music
- Chapter 7 Symbolism and Semiotics in Music
- Chapter 8 The Materials of Music
- Chapter 9 The Rhetoric of Music
- Chapter 10 Musical Hermeneutics
- Chapter 11 Listening Historically
- Chapter 12 Point of View in Music
- Chapter 13 Principles Specific to Music:
- Chapter 14 Musical Tension
- Chapter 15 Other Sources of Tension
- Chapter 16 Song and Dance
- Chapter 17 Melody and Melodic Line: Some Consequences
- Chapter 18 The Literature of the Piano:
- Chapter 19 Introductory Remarks
- Chapter 20 First Analysis: Mephisto Waltz
- Chapter 21 Second Analysis: Two-
- Part I nventions in F and fm
- Chapter 22 Third Analysis: Reflets dans l'eau
- Chapter 23 Moods: Works by Bach, Byrd, Mozart; Chopin, Schubert and Rachmaninoff
- Chapter 24 Short Romantic Compositions
- Chapter 25 Short Romantic Compositions (cont.)
- Chapter 26 Short Classic and Baroque Compositions
- Chapter 27 Compositions of Intermediate Length
- Chapter 28 Theme and Cariations
- Chapter 29 Beethoven Sonatas
- Chapter 30 The Sonata: Other Composers
- Chapter 31 Romantic Sonatas and Fantasies
- Chapter 32 Nationalism
- Chapter 33 Back to Bach
- Chapter 34 Fugue after Bach
- Chapter 35 Debussy and Ravel
- Chapter 36 More Clothes for the Emperor
- Chapter 37 More Clothes for the Emperor (cont.)
- Chapter 38 Later Developments
- Chapter 39 Appendix
- Chapter 40 Notes
- Chapter 41 Index