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Author Tarasti, Eero.

Title A theory of musical semiotics / Eero Tarasti.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1994]
[©1994]

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Description xvi, 328 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
Series Advances in semiotics
Advances in semiotics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-323) and index.
Contents Foreword / Thomas A. Sebeok -- Part 1. Theoretical Background. I. In Search of a Theory. II. Musical Time. III. Musical Space. IV. Musical Actors -- Part 2. Analyses. V. Semiosis of the Classical Style: Beethoven's "Waldstein" VI. Narrativity in Chopin. VII. Music and Literature. VIII. Music and Visual Arts: Pictures and Promenades - A Peircean Excursion into the Semiosis of Musorgsky. IX. The Semiotics of Symphonism: A Deconstruction of National Meanings in Sibelius's Fourth Symphony. X. Toward the Modern Scene.
Summary Eero Tarasti advances a semiotic theory of music based on information provided by the history of Western music and by various sign theories. A Theory of Musical Semiotics is at the same time a study of music as a narrative art. It analyzes musical works through the theoretical frameworks of narratology and French structural semiotics, especially that of A. J. Greimas. Tarasti views other theories from the "classical" semiotic tradition, from Saussure to Peirce to Lotman, as possible foundations of musical semiotics. A Theory of Musical Semiotics provides a model for the semiotic analysis of both musical structure and semantics. It introduces the English-language reader to musical narratology, a field of inquiry that until recently has remained largely the province of European researchers.
Subject Music -- Semiotics.
Music -- Semiotics.
Music theory.
Music theory.
Musical analysis.
Musical analysis.
Sémiotique et musique.
Théorie musicale.
Analyse musicale.
Muziek.
Semiotiek.
Verteltheorie.
ISBN 0253356490 cloth
9780253356499 cloth