Music vs Words : Exploring the Problematic State of Semantic Meaning in Music

Musical language does not carry obvious semantic meaning. The question of whether music has semantic meaning, or how it does, has been an age old question in musicology. This paper is a case study of musical analyses from Lawrence Kramer and Constantin Floros, and it discusses how they interpret sem...

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Main Author: Sirman, Berk
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för musikvetenskap 2009
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-281665