Music Speaks: On the Language of Opera, Dance, and Song

by Daniel Albright

Explores the meaning[s] of music, the most intricate and significant language invented by our culture.

From Daniel Albright, author of Musicking Shakespeare and Berlioz's Semi-Operas, comes a collection of essays on music and on dance, probing the problems of articulating the meaning[s] of music; the larger question of how music and language interact; how text-setting highlights certain areas of meter, theme, or ironic undertone, and leaves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158046324X
• ISBN13: 9781580463249
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.1" x 7.3"