Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword v
3. Contents vii
4. Part one: Music as sign
5. Chapter 1. Is music sign? 3
6. Chapter 2. Signs in music history, history of music semiotics 27
7. Chapter 3. Signs as acts and events: On musical situations 65
8. Part two: Gender, biology, and transcendence
9. Chapter 4. Metaphors of nature and organicism in music: A “biosemiotic” approach 91
10. Chapter 5. The emancipation of the sign: On corporeal and gestural meanings in music 117
11. Chapter 6. Body and transcendence in Chopin 129
12. Part three: Social and musical practices
13. Chapter 7. Voice and identity 157
14. Chapter 8. On the semiosis of musical improvisation: From Mastersingers to Bororo indians 179
15. Notes 199
16. References 201
17. Name index 219