| Description |
xviii, 370 pages : music ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Advances in semiotics
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Advances in semiotics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-358) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / David Lidov. 1. Musical Initiations ; 2. Subjects and Subjectivity ; 3. A Philosophical Outlook -- 1. Signs of Subjectivity. 1. Physical Disciplines and Signs ; 2. A Semiotic View of Musical Subjectivity ; 3. Expressive Individuation and Uncertainty -- 2. Listening Subjects and Semiotic Worlds. 1. Uncertainties of Musical Signification ; 2. Intentionality and Metaphor ; 3. Subjects and First-Person Authority ; 4. Regaining an Interpretive "I" -- 3. Musical Signs. 1. Signs and Objects ; 2. Questions and Typologies -- 4. Naming Qualities: Hearing Signs. 1. Qualities and Qualities-as-Signs ; 2. Disciplinary Boundaries: How Does Semiotics Relate to Psychology? ; 3. Living Sounds and Virtualities ; 4. Worlds of Sound and Subjective Identifications -- 5. Gesturing. 1. Gesture as performance and convention ; 2.To Perform or to Dissimulate? ; 3. Voice and Gesture as Virtualities -- 6. Framing Willfulness in Tonal Law. 1. Theorists: Giving Roles to Rules ; 2. Dialectics of Tonal Semiosis -- 7. Complex Syntheses. 1. Expressive Complexity and Musical "Personae" ; 2. Modes of Synthesis -- 8. Culturally Embedded Signs. 1. Emergent Qualities ; 2. Skeptical Issues -- 9. Values and Personal Categories. 1. Sound and Sensuality ; 2. Encounters ; 3. Rehabilitating the Subject -- Afterword / by Robert S. Hatten -- Appendix: Theorizing Generals. 1. Real of Nominal Rules? ; 2. Finding Constancies, Explaining What One Hears, or Seeking Enlightenment? |
| Subject |
Music -- Semiotics.
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Music -- Semiotics. |
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
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Musical analysis.
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Musical analysis. |
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Sémiotique et musique. |
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Musique -- Philosophie et esthétique. |
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Analyse musicale. |
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Musikalische Semiotik. |
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Interpretation. |
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Subjektivität. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Cumming, Naomi. Sonic self. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2000 (OCoLC)622100397 |
| ISBN |
0253337542 cl alkaline paper |
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9780253337542 cl alkaline paper |
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0253213932 pa alkaline paper |
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9780253213938 pa alkaline paper |
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