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"Byron Almen proposes an original synthesis of approaches to musical narrative from literary criticism, semiotics, historiography, musicology, and music theory, resulting in a significant critical reorientation of the field. This volume includes an extensive survey of traditional approaches to musical narrative, a careful delineation of the essential elements and preconditions of musical narrative organization, an eclectic analytical model applicable to a wide range of musical styles and repertoires, a diverse range of musical examples illustrating the range and applicability of the theoretical apparatus, a classification scheme of narrative types and subtypes reflecting conceptually distinct narrative strategies, a wide array of interpretive categories, and a sensitivity to the dependence of narrative interpretation on the cultural milieu of the work, its various audiences, and the analyst. A Theory of Musical Narrative provides both an excellent introduction to an increasingly important conceptual domain and a complex reassessment of its possibilities and characteristics."-- Amazon.com

Music --- Music and literature. --- Music theory. --- Musical analysis. --- Narrative in music. --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Semiotics.

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The musical leitmotif, having reached a point of particular forcefulness in the music of Richard Wagner, has remained a popular compositional device up to the present day. In this book, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the background and development of the leitmotif, from Wagner to the Hollywood adaptations of The Lord of The Rings and the Harry Potter series. Analyzing both concert music and film music, Bribitzer-Stull explains what the leitmotif is and establishes it as the union of two aspects: the thematic and the associative. He goes on to show that Wagner's Ring cycle provides a leitmotivic paradigm, a model from which we can learn to better understand the leitmotif across style periods. Arguing for a renewed interest in the artistic merit of the leitmotif, Bribitzer-Stull reveals how uniting meaning, memory, and emotion in music can lead to a richer listening experience and a better understanding of dramatic music's enduring appeal.

Leitmotif. --- Motion picture music --- Program music. --- Programmatic music --- Music --- Narrative in music --- Leading motif --- Leading motive --- Leitmotiv --- Opera --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Wagner, Richard, --- Opera's --- Filmmuziek --- Leidmotieven --- Musical analysis --- Leitmotiv. --- Film, Musique de --- Musique à programme. --- Analyse musicale --- Motion picture music. --- Filmmusik --- Histoire et critique. --- Operas (Wagner, Richard) --- Bibel

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Associated through descriptive texts with literature, politics, religion, and other subjects, 'characteristic' symphonies offer an opportunity to study instrumental music as it engages important social and political debates of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This first full-length study of the genre illuminates the relationship between symphonies and their aesthetic and social contexts by focussing on the musical representation of feeling, human physical movement, and the passage of time. The works discussed include Beethoven's Pastoral and Eroica Symphonies, Haydn's Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's symphonies on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and orchestral battle reenactments of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. A separate chapter details the aesthetic context within which characteristic symphonies were conceived, as well as their subsequent reception, and a series of appendixes summarises bibliographic information for over 225 relevant examples.

Music --- Program music. --- Symphony --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Musique à programme --- Nature in music --- Program music --- Programmamuziek --- Symphonie --- Musique --- Musique à programme --- Philosophie et esthétique --- Beethoven, Ludwig van, --- Haydn, Joseph, --- Dittersdorf, Carl Ditters von, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation --- 18th century --- 19th century --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Music - 18th century - Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Sinfonietta --- Symphonies --- Symphonietta --- Musical form --- Programmatic music --- Narrative in music --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- History and criticism