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Title

Systems of musical sense : essays on the analysis, semiotics, and hermeneutics of music / Fulvio Delli Pizzi, Michele Ignelzi, Paolo Rosato.

Author

Delli Pizzi, Fulvio.

Publication

Imatra : International Semiotics Institute at Imatra ; Helsinki : Semiotic Society of Finland : University of Helsinki, Department of Musicology, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Ignelzi, Michele.
• Rosato, Paolo.
• International Semiotics Institute.
• Suomen semiotiikan seura.
• Helsingin yliopisto. Musiikkitieteen laitos.

Description

ix, 262 pages : illustrations, music; 21 cm.

Series Statement

• Acta semiotica Fennica, 1235-497X ; 18
• Approaches to musical semiotics, 1458-4921 ; 6

Uniform Title

• Acta semiotica Fennica ; 18.
• Approaches to musical semiotics ; 6.

Subjects

• Music > Semiotics
• Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
• Musical analysis
• Musicology
• Music theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-257 and index).

Contents

Semiotics and analytical models. Signification in music : between structure and process ; Semiotic processes in music : systemics and modeliztion in paradigmatic analysis ; Modleing analysis and signification in music ; Paradigmatic analysis and musical processes ; From paradigms to musical interpretation : an analysis of the Cavatina from Beethoven's String quartet, op. 130 -- Homeostasis and heterostasis in Western music. Linear and harmonic processes in Renaissance polyphony : repetition and homeostasis in a work by Palestrina ; Autonomy and interaction of systems in tonal music ; Towards heterostatic systems : twentieth century music ; Melos narrativity in Anton Webern ; Still in C major : a reading of Dmitri Shostakovich's String quartet op. 49, first movement ; Functions and sense in 'ad hoc' systems ; Homeostatic and heterostatic systems in music ; Some reflections on behavioral constants in Western musical objects : an epochal view of universals in music -- Rhetoric without a rhetor. Musical rhetoric is not a will-o'-the-wisp ; Homeostasis as negative ; Rhetorical 'intentio operis' in Beethoven's Piano sonata op. 2, no. 2 -- Musica mentalis. Musica mentalis : the mind of music ; A dynamic approach to the study of the 'neutral level' and its perceptional correlates -- From paradigm to sign : textuality and hermeneutics in a reading of Tristan und Isolde. Two places in Tristan und Isolde : opposition and correspondence from a textural point of view ; Structural and semantic relationships in search of a semic nucleus of Tristan ; Studying opera : a hermeneutic approach.

ISBN

9525431061

OCLC

• ocm58340591
• SCSB-5167975

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Columbia University Libraries