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Informationen zum Autor Raymond Monelle Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung An invaluable interdisciplinary study that addresses three traditional topics in music Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Plates Preface Note on Titles of Musical Works Part One: Topic Theory 1. Topic and Expression 2. The Literary Source of Topic Theory 3. Signifier and Signified in Music Part Two: Huntsmen 4. Signifier: The Hunting Horn 5. Signified: Hunts Noble and Ignoble 6. Musical Hunts 7. The Topic Established Part Three: Soldiers 8. The Military Signifier: 1. The March 9. The Military Signifier: 2. The Military Trumpet and Its Players 10. The Military Signified 11. The Soldier Represented Part Four: Shepherds 12. The Pastoral Signified: The Myth 13. The Pastoral Signifier 14. The Pastoral in Music 15. New Pastorals 16. Epilogue Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography Index
