Whether it's a song by Brahms or by the Boss, a serenade by Mozart or a ballet by John Harbison, music radiates a diverse spectrum of meaningful signs, hidden in plain hearing. To enjoy the interplay of musical signs, it helps to recognize them in the first place. The various iconographic strategies of Audible Signs including commentary on graphic works, books, poems, and film yield new appreciations and critiques of composers of vastly divergent styles and technical materials. Author and composer Michael Alec Rose helps readers decode the signs composers give us in their music sounds that invoke very particular ideas, images, and cultural contexts and reveals the extraordinary ingenuity with which certain pieces deploy recognizable figures in a musical landscape. None of this can be done systematically. Each artwork reinvents "the code" and demands a unique set of approaches. Butthe chapters in this invigorating bookspring from the same musical ground, where the only thing that matters is to pay attention to the wonders of great music.
Ewan Ingleby is Senior Lecturer in
the School of Social Sciences and Law at Teesside University, UK, where he
teaches on the Education MA and PhD, and the Early Childhood Studies BA.
Dawn Joyce is Programme Leader for the PGCE programmes at Teesside University, UK.
Sharon Powell is a Principal Lecturer and Education Subject Group Leader at Teesside University , UK.