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Author Tarasti, Eero.

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

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Approaches to applied semiotics ; 3
Approaches to applied semiotics ; 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index.
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 -- 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.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Semiotics.
Music -- Semiotics.
Symbolism in music.
Symbolism in music.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Tarasti, Eero. Signs of music. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002. viii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Approaches to applied semiotics ; 3 9783110172263 (DLC) 2002070066
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