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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464133203321

Autore

Tarasti Eero

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2002

ISBN

3-11-089987-6

Edizione

[Reprint 2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Approaches to Applied Semiotics [AAS] ; ; 3

Disciplina

780/.1/4

Soggetti

Music - Philosophy and aesthetics

Music - Semiotics

Symbolism in music

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Part one: Music as sign -- Chapter 1. Is music sign? -- Chapter 2. Signs in music history, history of music semiotics -- Chapter 3. Signs as acts and events: On musical situations -- Part two: Gender, biology, and transcendence -- Chapter 4. Metaphors of nature and organicism in music: A "biosemiotic" approach -- Chapter 5. The emancipation of the sign: On corporeal and gestural meanings in music -- Chapter 6. Body and transcendence in Chopin -- Part three: Social and musical practices -- Chapter 7. Voice and identity -- Chapter 8. On the semiosis of musical improvisation: From Mastersingers to Bororo indians -- Notes -- References -- Name index