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The Language of Music presents hundreds of musical examples ranging from plainsong to twentieth-century composers like Stravinsky to illustrate emotional communication through music.
This Clarendon Paperbacks edition examines Mozart's Fortieth Symphony and Vaughan Williams' work as primary case studies for analysing how tonal composition affects listeners.
The book establishes that music functions as a language with identifiable idioms and meanings, supporting comprehensive analysis of melodic phrases, harmonies, and rhythmic patterns.
First published in 1959 by Oxford University Press, this text serves as foundational scholarship for music theory, composition studies, and performance interpretation.
The author contends that all composers using tonal systems employ closely similar musical devices to evoke consistent emotional responses, demonstrating universal principles in composition.
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- Oxford University Press
- Format
- paperback
- ASIN
- 0198161808
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- Amazon UK
- Release Date
- 08 March 1990
- Listed Since
- 06 February 2007
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