Semiotics of Classical Music

by Eero Tarasti

Musical semiotics is a new discipline and paradigm of both semiotics and musicology. In its tradition, the current volume constitutes a radically new solution to the theoretical problem of how musical meanings emerge and how they are transmitted by musical signs even in most "absolute" and abstract musical works of Western classical heritage. Works from symphonies, lied, chamber music to opera are approached and studied here with methods of semiotic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1614511543
• ISBN13: 9781614511540
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary