Mozart and enlightenment semiotics
Stephen C. Rumph · 2011
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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.--Publisher description.
Book details
- Year
- 2011
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 265
- ISBN
- 9780520260863
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