Author

Publication

1994 - Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana

Language

English

Word Count

82,000 words, Guess

Page Count

328 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing412079
  • Goodreads3335077

Classifications

  • DDC781/.1
  • LCCML3845 .T35 1994

Description

Eero Tarasti advances a semiotic theory of music based on information provided by the history of Western music and by various sign theories. A Theory of Musical Semiotics is at the same time a study of music as a narrative art. It analyzes musical works through the theoretical frameworks of narratology and French structural semiotics, especially that of A. J. Greimas. Tarasti views other theories from the "classical" semiotic tradition, from Saussure to Peirce to Lotman, as possible foundations of musical semiotics. A Theory of Musical Semiotics provides a model for the semiotic analysis of both musical structure and semantics. It introduces the English-language reader to musical narratology, a field of inquiry that until recently has remained largely the province of European researchers.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Advances in semiotics

Other Editions

  • A theory of musical semioticsIndiana University Press1994-01-01

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