The Dawn of Music Semiology
Title | The Dawn of Music Semiology PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Dunsby |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1580465625 |
The dawn of music semiology showcases the work of ten leading musicologists inspired by the work of Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Reflecting the energy and diversity of the young field of music semiology, chapters in this volume discuss music and gesture, the psychology of music, and the role of ethnotheory, and offer new research on topics as diverse as modeling folk polyphony, spatialization in the Darmstadt repertoire, Schenker's theory of musical content, and modernism from Wagner to Boulez.
Music and Discourse
Title | Music and Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Jacques Nattiez |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1990-11-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780691027142 |
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Bloomsbury Semiotics Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences
Title | Bloomsbury Semiotics Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences PDF eBook |
Author | Jamin Pelkey |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2023-01-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1350139386 |
Bloomsbury Semiotics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the entire field of semiotics by revealing its influence on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. With four volumes spanning theory, method and practice across the disciplines, this definitive reference work emphasizes and strengthens common bonds shared across intellectual cultures, and facilitates the discovery and recovery of meaning across fields. It comprises: Volume 1: History and Semiosis Volume 2: Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences Volume 4: Semiotic Movements Written by leading international experts, the chapters provide comprehensive overviews of the history and status of semiotic inquiry across a diverse range of traditions and disciplines. Together, they highlight key contemporary developments and debates along with ongoing research priorities. Providing the most comprehensive and united overview of the field, Bloomsbury Semiotics enables anyone, from students to seasoned practitioners, to better understand and benefit from semiotic insight and how it relates to their own area of study or research. Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences presents the state-of-the art in semiotic approaches to disciplines ranging from philosophy and anthropology to history and archaeology, from sociology and religious studies to music, dance, rhetoric, literature, and structural linguistics. Each chapter goes casts a vision for future research priorities, unanswered questions, and fresh openings for semiotic participation in these and related fields.
Myth and Music
Title | Myth and Music PDF eBook |
Author | Eero Tarasti |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2012-01-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110808757 |
Playing with Signs
Title | Playing with Signs PDF eBook |
Author | V. Kofi Agawu |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 2014-07-14 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1400861837 |
Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyze the so-called Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this condition. Playing with Signs proposes a listener-oriented theory of Classic instrumental music that encompasses its two most fundamental communicative dimensions: expression and structure. Units of expression, defined in reference to topoi, are shown here to interact with, confront, and merge into units of structure, defined in terms of the rhetorical conventions of beginning, continuing, and ending. The book draws on examples from works by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven to show that the explicitly referential, even theatrical, surface of Classic music derives from a play with signs. Although addressed primarily to readers interested in musical analysis, the book opens up fruitful avenues for further research into musical semiotics, aesthetics, and Classicism. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Musical Signification
Title | Musical Signification PDF eBook |
Author | Eero Tarasti |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 613 |
Release | 2011-09-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110885182 |
Music as Discourse
Title | Music as Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Kofi Agawu |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2008-12-02 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0199888094 |
The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. Is music a language? Does it communicate specific ideas and emotions? What does music mean, and how does this meaning occur? Kofi Agawu's Music as Discourse has become a standard and definitive work in musical semiotics. Working at the nexus of musicology, ethnomusicology, and music philosophy and aesthetics, Agawu presents a synthetic and innovative approach to musical meaning which argues deftly for the thinking of music as a discourse in itself--composed not only of sequences of gestures, phrases, or progressions, but rather also of the very philosophical and linguistic props that enable the analytical formulations made about music as an object of study. The book provides extensive demonstration of the pertinence of a semiological approach to understanding the fully-freighted language of romantic music, stresses the importance of a generative approach to tonal understanding, and provides further insight into the analogy between music and language. Music as Discourse is an essential read for all who are interested in the theory, analysis and semiotics of music of the romantic period.