Beschreibung
The book is designed as an introduction to the basic questions of musical semantics and represents the quintessence of fifty years of the author's researches into music from Beethoven to Nono.
Autorenportrait
Constantin Floros is professor emeritus of Musicology at the University of Hamburg. Among his monographs are volumes on the origin of Gregorian neumes, Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alban Berg and György Ligeti.
Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch is professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He has translated several books by Constantin Floros.
Rezension
About the German edition: «The book is written in Floros’ accustomed precise and exact style and is equipped with an exemplary scholarly apparatus. An indispensable handbook not only for musical semanticists but for anyone needing to be informed about current advances in the determination of the nature of music.» (International Review for the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music)
Inhalt
Contents: The Concept of the Message in Music – Public and private Messages in Music – Richard Wagner’s
Wagner’s
Idea of a Religion of Art – The
– Basics of Program Music – 19th-Century Composer types – Music and Poetry – Berlioz’ Concept of the «Instrumental Drama» – Liszt’s Concept of the «Musical Epic» – Richard Strauss – Secret Program Music – On Gustav Mahler’s
– Music Must Become Language: On Hans Werner Henze – The Presence of All Eras: Messages through the Ages.
