Theory Analysis and Meaning in Music

Recent encounters with structuralist and poststructuralist critical theory linguistics and cognitive sciences have brought the theory and analysis of music into the orbit of important developments in present-day intellectual history. Without seeking to impose an explicit redefinition of either theory or analysis this book explores the limits of both. Essays on decidability ambiguity metaphor music as text and music analysis as cognitive theory are complemented by studies of works by Debussy Schoenberg Birtwistle and Boulez.