Musical Meaning and Interpretation-Robert S. Hatten, editor

Foreword
1. Prelude-Is Language a Music?
Part I. Structuralist Pespectives-Introduction
2. Structure and Function in Repetition.
3. The Allegretto of Beethoven's Seventh.
4. Mediation as a Formal Principle in Music: Three Examples.
Part II. Semiotic Polemics-Introduction
5. Nattiez's Fondements.
6. Our Time with Druids.
7. Why We Still Need Peirce.
Part III. From Gestures to Discourses-Introduction
8. Mind and Body in Music.
9. Opera Operta: Realism and Rehabilitation in La Traviata
10. A Monument in Song: Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee by Beverley (Buffy) St. Marie.
Part IV. The Messages of Methods-Introduction
11. Bartok the Progessive.
12. The Art of Music Theory and the Aesthetic Category of the Possible
13. Technique and Signification in the Twelve-Tone Method
14. The Project of Abstraction in Painting and Music.
Part V. Resisting Representation-Introduction
15. Replaying my Voice Mail
Notes
References
Index

David Lidov is a composer whose theoretical investigations were an early and influential source of the musical semiotics movement of recent decades. He teaches at York University in Toronto.