Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-520-26086-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 710 g

In this groundbreaking, historically-informed semiotic study of late eighteenth-century music, Stephen Rumph focuses on Mozart to explore musical meaning within the context of Enlightenment sign and language theory. Illuminating his discussion with French, British, German, and Italian writings on signs and language, Rumph analyzes movements from Mozart’s symphonies, concertos, operas, and church music. He argues that Mozartian semiosis is best understood within the empiricist tradition of Condillac, Vico, Herder, or Adam Smith, which emphasized the constitutive role of signs within human cognition. Recognizing that the rationalist model of neoclassical rhetoric has guided much recent work on Mozart and his contemporaries, Rumph demonstrates how the dialogic tension between opposing paradigms enabled the composer to negotiate contradictions within Enlightenment thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rumph, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Semiotik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassik (ca. 1750-1830)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Music Examples

Introduction

1. From Rhetoric to Semiotics
2. The Sense of Touch in Don Giovanni
3. Topics in Context
4. Mozart and Marxism
5. A Dubious Credo
6. Archaic Endings

Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Rumph is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Washington and the author of Beethoven after Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works (UC Press).