General Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art, Music Theory & Composition - General & Miscellaneous, Semiotics, Aesthetics of Music, Linguistics & Semiotics - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
This handbook for advanced students explains the various applications to music of analytical methods derived from linguistics and semiotics. The book is aimed at musicians familiar with the ordinary range of aesthetic and theoretical ideas in music: no specialized knowledge of linguistic or simiotic terminology is necessary. In the two introductory chapters, semiotics is related to the tradition of music aesthetics and to well-known works like Deryck Cooke's The Language of Music, and the methods of linguistics are explained in language intelligible to musicians. There is no limitation to one school or tradition; linguistic applications not avowedly semiotic, and semiotic theories not connected with linguistics, are all included. The book gives clear and simple descriptions of the "neutral level", "semiotic analysis", transformation and generation, structural semantics and narrative grammar, intonation theory, the ideas of C. S. Pierce, and applications in ethnomusicology, with ample diagBook Details
Published
January 28, 1992
Publisher
Chur, Switzerland ; Harwood Academic, c1992.
Pages
350
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9783718652082