Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music (Hardcover)

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.