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The Sense of Music: Semiotic Essays. (Book Reviews).
The Sense of Music: Semiotic Essays. By Raymond Monelle. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. [xvi, 248 p. ISBN 0-691-05715-X (cloth); 0-691-05716-8 (pbk.). $65 (cloth); $26.95 (pbk.).]
In a recent article in the New York Review of Books (29 March 2001), Oliver Sacks describes a form of high-functioning autism (Asperger syndrome), the victims of which "cannot read the expressions on people's faces or the intentions in their voices"; they are "generally blind to social meanings" and create instead their own networks of correlations "that bring to mind the elaborate pseudoscientific systems of numerology and astrology" (Sacks, 4). Within the ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Raymond Monelle August 31, 1996 700+ words
...colleagues to give recitals of chamber music at the Queen's Hall. Since the only...that he is bored with the sheer mass of music he is called on to perform. You would...mechanical vibrato that alienates the music. It is a clean and modern style, but...
- Linguistics and Semiotics in Music.
- Magazine article from: Notes Hatten, Robert S. March 1, 1994 700+ words
...Linguistics and Semiotics in Music is a valuable introduction to the growing field of music semiotics. As a member...University of Helsinki), Raymond Monelle is well qualified to present...work of a wide range of music semiotic theorists in both...
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...grasp meanings of gesture and music viscerally, we need to establish...hinder our understanding of music? William Echard's essay...melody "moves." By exploring music movement from the perspective...extramusical and the purely musical. Raymond Monelle explores the relationship between...
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...Those who knew Davies's music 30 years ago would not have...rich harmony, as though the music were rediscovering the common...kind of sentimental nature music that may also have for its...them specifically in mind. Raymond Monelle
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- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Raymond Monelle October 9, 1996 700+ words
...that contains much sublime music and a great deal of dreary...have added the resources of music - lyric, obsessive, haunting...absolute pitch (necessary in music of this type), was a colourless...31 Oct (0131-667 7776) Raymond Monelle
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- Magazine article from: Women & Music Sivuoja-Gunaratnam, Anne January 1, 2003 700+ words
...Gilbert, Pirkko Moisala, Raymond Monelle, John Richardson, and Edith...important place in the Finnish art music canon. Particularly his early...1974). He also wrote chamber music, choral songs, and two ballets...or solo songs) Much of his music has been published and released...
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...worth performing as a frame for Purcell's music. But how do you stage Restoration tragedy...of their festival, the Scottish Early Music Consort seemed determined to rubbish it...was one of ranting, flailing actors and music of unrelieved stiffness and insipidity...
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- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London RAYMOND MONELLE August 24, 1994 700+ words
...least resistance: most orchestras have already got some of his music in their repertoire, so it ought to be possible to put a programme...spinning off into oblivion. This was no more than a sketch of the music; the Eighth Symphony was better, less breakneck and frenetic...
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