Musical Signification
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Musical Signification

Essays in the Semiotic Theory and Analysis of Music

  1. 612 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Musical Signification

Essays in the Semiotic Theory and Analysis of Music

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Theoretical approaches
  3. Method and system
  4. Toward a reinterpretation of compositional theory
  5. Music and antimetaphor
  6. The sign and music: A reflection on the theoretical bases of musical semiotics
  7. How philosophical characterizations of a musical work lose sight of the ā€œmusicā€ and how it might be put back
  8. Interpretation and meaning in music
  9. Music and semantics
  10. The application of Hjelmslev’s glossematics to music
  11. The musical work as sign: Significative constituents, layers, structure
  12. Asaf’ev and Tynianov: On some analogies between musicology and the study of literature
  13. Intonation as a specific form of musical semiosis
  14. Musical intonation – language of intuition and logic: A contribution to the system of the semiotics of intonation in music
  15. Empirical studies
  16. ā€œThe voice of the heartā€: A progressive semiosis on the interval of the sixth
  17. Pertinence in music
  18. Meaning and behavior patterns: The creation of meaning in interpreting and listening to music
  19. On the genesis of the musical sign
  20. Art evolution in the light of brain asymmetry: A trial of empirical investigation
  21. A semio-psychological theory of communication in music
  22. Character and characterization in musical performance: Effects of sensory experience upon meaning
  23. Tempo deviations and musical signification: A case study
  24. The pitch of glide-like F0 curves in Votic folksongs
  25. The concept of hierarchy: A theoretical approach
  26. Musical pragmatics and computer modelling
  27. Some relationships between terminology, analytic strategies, and computational methodologies
  28. Semiotic bases and computer assisted composition: Towards a cognitive model
  29. Experiments on grammar-based analysis of music
  30. Analyses of musical styles and texts
  31. Metaphor in music
  32. Performative musical acts: The Verdian achievement
  33. Peirce’s ā€œgroundā€ and 19th-century Lieder
  34. The couples who remain: With reference to ā€œIci-basā€ by Sully Prudhomme and FaurĆ©
  35. ā€œApres un rĆŖveā€: A semiotic analysis of the song by Gabriel FaurĆ©
  36. The problem of narrativity in the symphonic poem En saga by Jean Sibelius
  37. Orchestration and form in Leos JanĆ”Äek’s Concertino: An analysis of intratextural interaction
  38. ā€œMusic becomes languageā€: Narrative strategies in El cimarrón by Hans-Werner Henze
  39. Narrativity and electroacoustic music
  40. On the sound dimension of prehistoric painted caves and rocks
  41. The mythical in non-programmatic music
  42. The symbol of the tree in musical Jugendstil
  43. Aspects of the ā€œDance of Deathā€ as a semiotic system
  44. Authors
  45. Index