Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics: Volume 14 by Rumph, Stephen

Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics: Volume 14 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520260863)

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Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics: Volume 14 by Rumph, Stephen

Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics: Volume 14

$85.00
Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics: Volume 14 by Rumph, Stephen

Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics: Volume 14

$85.00
Format: Hardcover
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In this groundbreaking, historically-informed semiotic study of late eighteenth-century music, Stephen Rumph focuses on Mozart to explore musical meaning within the context of Enlightenment sign and language theory. Illuminating his discussion with French, British, German, and Italian writings on signs and language, Rumph analyzes movements from Mozart's symphonies, concertos, operas, and church music. He argues that Mozartian semiosis is best understood within the empiricist tradition of Condillac, Vico, Herder, or Adam Smith, which emphasized the constitutive role of signs within human cognition. Recognizing that the rationalist model of neoclassical rhetoric has guided much recent work on Mozart and his contemporaries, Rumph demonstrates how the dialogic tension between opposing paradigms enabled the composer to negotiate contradictions within Enlightenment thought.

Author: Stephen Rumph
ISBN-10: 0520260864
ISBN-13: 9780520260863
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 10/18/2011
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.80d

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Choice 04/01/2012
By Stephen Rumph
By Stephen Rumph
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Stephen Rumph is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Washington and the author of Beethoven after Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works (UC Press).

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