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Title

Musical semiotics revisited / edited by Eero Tarasti ; associate editors, Paul Forsell, Richard Littlefield.

Publication

Imatra : International Semiotics Institute, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Tarasti, Eero.
• Forsell, Paul.
• Littlefield, Richard.

Description

xvii, 669 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

• Acta semiotica Fennica, 1235-497X ; 15
• Approaches to musical semiotics, 1458-4921 ; 4
• Studia musicologica Universitatis Helsingiensis, 0787-4294 ; 9

Subjects

• Musical analysis
• Analyse musicale
• Sémiotique et musique
• Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
• Musique > Philosophie et esthétique
• Music > Semiotics

Note

• English and French.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Reflections ex cathedra. Metaphors of nature and organicism in the epistemology of music : a "biosemiotic" introduction to the analysis of Jean Sibelius's symphonic thought / Eero Tarasti -- Music, the arts, and prenatal styles : an approach to the "globality of languages" / Stefania Guerra Lisi and Gino Stefani -- Affect and narrative transformation in 18th-century sonata forms : the first movement of Mozart's Symphony in C major K. 338¹ / Márta Grabócz -- Le siècle de Schoenberg : une généalogie du style et de l'idée / Danielle Cohen-Levinas -- Thematic gestures, topics, and tropes : grounding expressive interpretation in Schubert / Robert S. Hatten -- La recherche des dieux enfuis / Joseph-François Kremer -- Musical work, meaning and society : on the hazards of the sociology of mediation / Jean-Marie Jacono -- The semiotics of cell-phone ring tones / Erkki Pekkilä.
• Epistemology and theory. Paradigms and revolutions in musical languages : towards a relativistic theory and analytical method based on Kuhn's structure of scientific revolutions / Antonio Lai -- The semiotical moment : historicity of musicological approaches, historicity of musical works / Raphaël Brunner -- Some reflections on the postmodern project in musicology and its semiotic essence / Susanna Välimäki -- "Le langage sans la musique"? : towards a semio-musical approach to the study of poetic rhythm via the existential dimension of the sign / Drina V. Hocevar -- Le sens des œuvres polysémiosiques : essai d'analyse sémiotique des structures de Turandot de Puccini / Johanne Cassar -- Beating the air : phenomenological remarks on the semiotics of conducting / Carl Erik Kühl -- An outline of Jean-Jacques Nattiez's semiological method / Veronika Janatjeva.
• Aesthetics. Mind over body : evaluating the aesthetic experience in Eduard Hanslick's writing / Sanna Iitti -- La "vitesse du son" : sur la surprise en musique / Matthieu Guillot -- La musique au seuil du XXI. siècle : la voix dans un paysage sonore schizophonique / Heloísa de Araújo Duarte Valente.
• Empirical approaches. Semiotic chora in music : a psychoanalytic view of archaic signification in music / Susanna Välimäki -- Symptomatology of a semiotic research : methodologies and problems in zoomusicology / Dario Martinelli -- Musical semantics betweeen epistemological assumptions and operational claims / Mark Reybrouck -- Musical composition process as action and experience : a naturalistic approach to cognition as a framework for a theory of the musical composition process / Juha Ojala.
• Narrativity. A narrative analysis of Schumann's Kinderszenen / John S. Ellis -- Greimas's modalities and Chopin's Ballade in G minor : Tarasti's analytic criteria / Mario Stern -- A semiotic approach to tonal closure in Carl Nielsen's Fourth symphony (The inextinguishable) / Tom Pankhurst.

Call Number

JMD 07-207

ISBN

• 9525431037
• 9789525431032

LCCN

2003362339

OCLC

53469921

Title

Musical semiotics revisited / edited by Eero Tarasti ; associate editors, Paul Forsell, Richard Littlefield.

Imprint

Imatra : International Semiotics Institute, 2003.

Series

Acta semiotica Fennica, 1235-497X ; 15

Approaches to musical semiotics, 1458-4921 ; 4

Studia musicologica Universitatis Helsingiensis, 0787-4294 ; 9

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Tarasti, Eero.

Forsell, Paul.

Littlefield, Richard.

Research Call Number

JMD 07-207