TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tarasti,Eero
ED  - Indiana University.
TI  - A theory of musical semiotics
T2  - Advances in semiotics
SN  - 0253356490
AV  - ML3845 .T35 1994
PY  - 1994///]
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Music
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Music theory
KW  - Musical analysis
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-323) and index; Contents;  	Foreword; / Thomas A. Sebeok;  	Preface;  	Acknowledgments; Pt. 1	Theoretical Background;  	I	In Search of a Theory;  	II	Musical Time;  	III	Musical Space;  	IV	Musical Actors; Pt. 2	Analyses;  	V	Semiosis of the Classical Style: Beethoven's "Waldstein";  	VI	Narrativity in Chopin;  	VII	Music and Literature;  	VIII	Music and Visual Arts: Pictures and Promenades - A Peircean Excursion into the Semiosis of Musorgsky;  	IX	The Semiotics of Symphonism: A Deconstruction of National Meanings in Sibelius's Fourth Symphony;  	X	Toward the Modern Scene;  	Conclusion;  	Appendix: "Apres Un Reve";  	Glossary;  	Notes;  	Bibliography;  	Index
N2  - 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
ER  -