Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-226) and index.
Contents
The divining rod : on imagination, interpretation, and analysis / Edward Pearsall and Byron Almén -- Anatomy of a gesture : from Davidovsky to Chopin and back / Patrick McCreless -- Anti-teleological art : articulating meaning through silence / Edward Pearsall -- The troping of temporality in music / Robert S. Hatten -- A simple model for associative musical meaning / J. Peter Burkholder -- Uncanny moments : juxtaposition and the collage principle in music / Nicholas Cook -- The sacrificed hero : creative mythopoesis in Mahler's Wunderhorn symphonies / Byron Almén -- Contingencies of meaning in transcriptions and excerpts : popularizing Samson et Dalila / Jann Pasler.
