Varieties of Musical Irony

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-316-50651-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 203 mm x 276 mm, Gewicht: 621 g

Irony, one of the most basic, pervasive, and variegated of rhetorical tropes, is as fundamental to musical thought as it is to poetry, prose, and spoken language. In this wide-ranging study of musical irony, Michael Cherlin draws upon the rich history of irony as developed by rhetoricians, philosophers, literary scholars, poets, and novelists. With occasional reflections on film music and other contemporary works, the principal focus of the book is classical music, both instrumental and vocal, ranging from Mozart to Mahler. The result is a surprising array of approaches toward the making and interpretation of irony in music. Including nearly ninety musical examples, the book is clearly structured and engagingly written. This interdisciplinary volume will appeal to those interested in the relationship between music and literature as well as to scholars of musical composition, technique, and style.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cherlin, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. Irony as a 'master trope'; 2. Varieties of musical irony; 3. Mozart's Figaro; 4. Heine and irony in the Lied tradition; 5. The Jewish face of Mahlerian irony.

Über Autor(innen)

Cherlin, Michael
Michael Cherlin is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Minnesota. He has published widely on Schoenberg in particular and is the author of Schoenberg's Musical Imagination (Cambridge, 2007). He also edited Music Theory Spectrum from 2013 to 2015.