Music & meaning / Music and meaning. edited by Jenefer Robinson. - Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, c1997. - xii, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Language and the interpretation of music / Leo Treitler -- Listening with imagination: is music representational? / Kendall Walton -- Musical idiosyncrasy and perspectival listening / Kathleen Marie Higgins -- Music as drama / Fred Everett Maus -- Action and agency in Mahler's Ninth symphony, second movement / Anthony Newcomb -- Shostakovich's Tenth symphony and the musical expression of cognitively complex emotions / Gregory Karl and Jenefer Robinson -- What Schubert's last sonata might hold / Charles Fisk -- Two types of metaphoric transference / Marion A. Gluck -- Music and negative emotion / Jerrold Levinson -- Why listen to sad music if it makes one feel sad? / Stephen Davies.

0801432995 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801483670 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Music and language.
Music and literature.
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music--Psychological aspects.
Music, Influence of.
Symbolism in music.

ML3845 ML3845 / .M96 1997 / .M972

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