Signs of Music: A Guide to Musical Semiotics

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Walter de Gruyter, 15 трав. 2012 р. - 232 стор.

Music is said to be the most autonomous and least representative of all the arts. However, it reflects in many ways the realities around it and influences its social and cultural environments. Music is as much biology, gender, gesture - something intertextual, even transcendental. Musical signs can be studied throughout their history as well as musical semiotics with its own background. Composers from Chopin to Sibelius and authors from Nietzsche to Greimas and Barthes illustrate the avenues of this new discipline within semiotics and musicology.

 

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Chapter 1 Is music sign?
3
A historical perspective
4
13 Peirce Greimas and musicsemiotic analysis
9
14 Understanding misunderstanding musical signs
16
Chapter 2 Signs in music history history of music semiotics
27
22 Signs in music itself
31
23 History of musical scholarship in the light of semiotics
51
24 Main lines in the development of musical semiotics
57
63 Analysis
141
Social and musical practices
155
Chapter 7 Voice and identity
157
72 Text
161
73 Transcendence
162
74 Orality
163
75 Singing as social identity
164
76 National voice types
167

On musical situations
65
31 Situation as communication and signification
73
32 Situation as act and event
76
33 Situations as intertextuality
82
34 Articulation of situations
85
Gender biology and transcendence
89
A biosemiotic approach
91
42 Sibelius and the idea of the organic
104
43 Organic narrativity
112
On corporeal and gestural meanings in music
117
Chapter 6 Body and transcendence in Chopin
129
61 Are corporeal signs iconic?
132
62 Are corporeal signs indexical?
134
77 Gender
169
78 Education
171
79 Empirical methods
174
710 Conclusion
176
From Mastersingers to Bororo indians
179
82 Improvisation as communication
185
A peircean view
189
A greimassian view
194
Improvisation and existential semiotics
196
Notes
199
References
201
Name index
219
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Eero Tarasti is Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

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