Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Preface xi
5. 1. Introduction: New Ways of Thinking about Musical Meaning 1
6. I. THE MEANINGS OF MUSIC
7. 2. Language and the Interpretation of Music 23
8. 3. Listening with Imagination: Is Music Representational? 57
9. 4. Musical Idiosyncrasy and Perspectival Listening 83
10. II. MUSIC AS STORY-TELLING: THE LITERARY ANALOGY
11. 5. Music as Drama 105
12. 6. Action and Agency in Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Second Movement 131
13. 7. Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony and the Musical Expression of Cognitively Complex Emotions 154
14. 8. What Schubert's Last Sonata Might Hold 179
15. 9. Two Types of Metaphoric Transference 201
16. III. EXPERIENCING MUSIC EMOTIONALLY
17. 10. Music and Negative Emotion 215
18. 11. Why Listen to Sad Music If It Makes One Feel Sad? 242
19. Index 255