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Signs of Music

A Guide to Musical Semiotics
  • Eero Tarasti
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2002
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Music is said to be the most autonomous and least representative of all the arts. However, it reflects in many ways the realities around it and influences its social and cultural environments. Music is as much biology, gender, gesture - something intertextual, even transcendental. Musical signs can be studied throughout their history as well as musical semiotics with its own background. Composers from Chopin to Sibelius and authors from Nietzsche to Greimas and Barthes illustrate the avenues of this new discipline within semiotics and musicology.

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Eero Tarasti is Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

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"'Signs of music: a guide to musical semiotics' von Eero Tarasti ist ein Buch, das sein Versprechen erfüllt. Es ist eine motivierende Lektüre, sowohl für diejenigen, die zum ersten Mal mit dieser neuen Disziplin in Berührung kommen, als auch für die in diese Materie bereits eingeweihten. Das faszinierende hervortretende Feld Musiksemiotik ist ein vielfältiger und komplexer Diskurs und Metadiskurs über Musik und Zeichen in Bezug auf Ästhetik, Geschichte, Komposition, Interpretation, Kommunikation, Praxis, usw. Eero Tarasti verbindet wissenschaftliche Genauigkeit mit Offenheit und bietet hier eine Grundlage für weitere Entwicklungen."
Paulo C. Chagas in: Forum Musikbibliothek, Kromsdorf/Weimar, 1/2003


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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
May 15, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9783110899870
Hardcover published on:
June 13, 2002
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110172263
Paperback published on:
June 13, 2002
Paperback ISBN:
9783110172270
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Reprint 2012
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Front matter:
8
Main content:
224
Illustrations:
13
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