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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2003 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
- ISSN
- 0262-5245
- eISSN
- 1468-2249
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.0262-5245.2003.00182.x
- Publisher site
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Abstract
ß Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2003. Published by Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK CRITICAL FORUM human communication, let alone an inter-cultural one. This much said, it is only fair to assume that all readers bound by pragmatic considerations require a strong incentive in order to invest the time and effort needed to read any text written in an unfamiliar tongue. Such a text should at least extend the prospect of revealing something new and distinctive that other extant sources do not offer. For his part, Casablancas writes as a musicologist who is also, and perhaps even mainly, a composer. Thus his book focuses principally on creative techniques which he proceeds to enumerate in a methodical, quasi-didactic way. His forte lies in the highly sensitive, if intuitive, description of specific musical examples, each of them presented in order to convey some characteristic facet of musical humour. Clearly he appears less at ease with either furnishing theoretical definitions, or providing analytical explanations of the precise means by which these elements create their impact. Instead, the characteristics of musical irony, its various expressions and techniques, are examined in relation to a repertoire drawn principally from the Viennese classics.
Journal
Music Analysis – Wiley
Published: Mar 1, 2003