Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music

Contents

• 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 method Craig Ayrey
• 8. Music as text: Mahler, Schumann and issues in analysis Robert Samuels
• 9. The obbligato recitative: narrative and Schoenberg's Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16 Alan Street
• 10. Music theory and the challenge of modern music: Birtwistle's Refrains and Choruses Jonathan Cross
• 11. Repons: phantasmagoria or the articulation of space? Alastair Williams
• Bibliography
• Index.