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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index.

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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 -- The 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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Annotation Eight essays and articles Finish scholar Tarasti has mostly written since his 1994 </Theory of Musical Semiotics/> trace his development of a new philosophical theory called existential semiotics. He intends them to provide a practical guide to studying music as sign and communication, combining his own ideas with those of recent musicology in general. They cover music as sign; gender, biology, and transcendence; and social and musical practices. Only names are indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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