The Battle of Chronos and Orpheus : Essays in Applied Musical Semiology
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In this collection of previously unpublished essays Jean-Jacques Nattiez applies his theoretical foundations of musical semiotics to theorists such as Livi-Strauss, Hanslick, and Brailoiu; novelists such as Proust; and poets such as Baudelaire. The author treats problems which musicologists
and music lovers alike need to address: the artistic product in music of oral tradition, the nature of musical facts, and questions of fidelity and authenticity in performance practice.
Nattiez tackles these perennial issues with an originality born out of his focus on the status of time in the works considered. This approach allows him to take sides, sometimes in a provocative manner, in the ongoing debates which pit adherents of modernity against apologists of
postmodernism.
The Battle of Chronos and Orpheus: Essays in Applied Musical Semiology,Jean-Jacques Nattiez,Jonathan Dunsby,Oxford University Press, USA,0198166109,History,History & Criticism - General,History and criticism,Instruction & Study - Theory,Military,Military - General,Music,Music/Songbooks,Musical analysis,Philosophy and aesthetics,Semiotics,Music / Theory,Music | Music Theory, Analysis, & Composition,Theory of music & musicology
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