Signs of music : a guide to musical semiotics

Signs of music : a guide to musical semiotics / by Eero Tarasti.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tarasti, Eero
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.
Series:	Approaches to applied semiotics ; 3.
Subjects:	Music > Philosophy and aesthetics. Music > Semiotics. Symbolism in music. MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical. MUSIC > Reference. Music > Philosophy and aesthetics Music > Semiotics Symbolism in music Musikalische Semiotik Semiotiek. Muziek.
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Table of Contents:

Music as sign
Is music sign?
Music as semiotic: A historical perspective
Peirce, Greimas, and music-semiotic analysis
Understanding / misunderstanding musical signs
Theses on understanding / misunderstanding musical signs
Theses on processes of understanding
Signs in music history, history of music semiotics
Signs in music itself
Romanticism
Modernism
History of musical scholarship in the light of semiotics
Main lines in the development of musical semiotics
Signs as acts and events: On musical situations
Situation as communication and signification
Situation as act and event
Situations as intertextuality
Articulation of situations
Gender, biology, and transcendence
Metaphors of nature and organicism in music: A "biosemiotic" approach
On the musically organic
Sibelius and the idea of the "organic"
Organic narrativity
The emancipation of the sign: On corporeal and gestural meanings in music
Body and transcendence in Chopin
Are corporeal signs iconic?
Are corporeal signs indexical?
Analysis
Social and musical practices
Voice and identity
Voice and signification
Text
Transcendence
Orality
Singing as social identity
National voice types
Gender
Education
Empirical methods
On the semiosis of musical improvisation: From Mastersingers to Bororo indians
Musical improvisation and semiotics
Improvisation as communication
Improvisation as signification: A peircean view.