How Music Expresses Ideas
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"How Music Expresses Ideas" is a critical study by musicologist Sidney Finkelstein that explores how musical structures and styles convey social, emotional, and intellectual meanings.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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critical study ⓘ musicology study ⓘ |
| about |
cultural meaning of music
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ideas in art ⓘ music ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
connect musical analysis with social analysis
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explain how music can express complex ideas ⓘ |
| author | Sidney Finkelstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes |
how music can embody intellectual ideas
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how music communicates emotions ⓘ how musical form conveys social content ⓘ how musical style reflects historical conditions ⓘ |
| discusses |
historical development of musical styles
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links between musical language and social change ⓘ |
| field |
Marxist cultural criticism
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aesthetics of music ⓘ musicology ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
interaction of musical form and content
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relationship between musical structure and meaning ⓘ role of the listener in understanding music ⓘ social function of music ⓘ |
| genre |
music criticism
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | critical essay collection ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
critique of purely formalist approaches to music
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socially grounded view of musical meaning ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
20th-century musicology
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Marxist cultural theory ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
general readers interested in music and ideas
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musicologists ⓘ students of music ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
emotional meaning in music
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intellectual meaning in music ⓘ musical expression of ideas ⓘ relationship between music and society ⓘ social meaning of musical structures ⓘ |
| theoreticalFramework |
Marxist aesthetics
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historical materialism ⓘ |
| workOf | Sidney Finkelstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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