Approaches to Meaning in Music

Approaches to Meaning in Music presents a survey of the problems and
issues inherent in pursuing meaning and signification in music, and attempts to
rectify the conundrums that have plagued philosophers, artists, and theorists since
the time of Pythagoras. This collection brings together essays that reflect a
variety of diverse perspectives on approaches to musical meaning. Established music
theorists and musicologists cover topics including musical aspect and temporality,
collage, borrowing and association, musical symbols and creative mythopoesis, the
articulation of silence, the mutual interaction of cultural and music-artistic
phenomena, and the analysis of gesture.

Contributors are Byron
Almén, J. Peter Burkholder, Nicholas Cook, Robert S. Hatten, Patrick McCreless,
Jann Pasler, and Edward Pearsall.