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Methodological Foundations of Eero Tarasti's Musical Semiotics
Christian Vassilev
Music Semiotic Society of Finland 9789526906157 Available
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Notes: preface by Eero Tarasti
Annotation: This book is an introduction to Eero Tarasti's works on music, as well as musical semiotics in general. It covers a wide range of sources from multiple disciplinary fields in order to familiarize the reader with the basic language and common references of semiotic inquiries in music. Starting with the basics of structural and Peircean semiotics, theories of discourse, topic theory and others, and their application to music, the book moves on to discuss their interpretation in Tarasti's decade-long oeuvre.
Identifier: 9789526906157
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Greimas close and far
Karolis Rimtautas Kašponis
General Semiotics Naujasis Lankas 9789955038702 Available
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Parallel title: Parallel title: Greimas arti ir toli
Annotation: Algirdas Julien Greimas (born Algirdas Julius Greimas) is one the most prominent creators of semiotics who laid the foundations of the Paris School of Semiotics known all over the world. He was also a famous linguist who researched Lithuanian mythology. Algirdas Julien Greimas is one of the most prominent Lithuanians in the international world of science, in many aspects compared to Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. The greatest influence on the life and works of Greimas came from French culture renowned for its science, literature and art. Nevertheless, the time spent in Lithuania was also significant. Greimas himself viewed Lithuanian and western (French) periods of his life as correlation between two cultures. Therefore, every moment of his life is important to us, each moment contributing to the whole picture and enriching his life. Neither Greimas' childhood nor his youth which is the genesis of intellectual and aesthetic signs is reviewed in literature. Various authors tend to start writing Greimas'biography starting from his years in Vytautas Magnus University. Professor Eero Tarasti, the president of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, offered me to prepare a work about Greimas' life in Lithuania. As I myself studied in Kupiškis and knew a lot of things about the Greimas family, I decided to look at Greimas'childhood period in Kupiškis. The sources I used in this work are as follows: Greimas' words about his childhood, national and personal archives, press of those days and stories told by those who knew the Greimas family.My experience with exceptionally gifted children in National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art in Vilnius and consulting with famous scientist has helped me to discuss the genesis of intellectual and aesthetic signs in Greimas' biography. As for the form of the work, I have chosen to use the form of an exposition with elements of a poster presentation, which allowed me to participate in significant scientific forums in France, Finland, Russia and China. In Lithuania, in those places where Greimas lived, my exposition contributed to the studies of his biography, organisation of conferences and dedication to Greimas. As it turned out, the prestigious gymnasiums where Greimas studied in Šiauliai and Marijampolė established in 1851 and 1867 have raised about half (9 out of 20) of those who signed the Act of Independence of Lithuania on 16 February 1918 and 12 out of 100 most outstanding persons in Lithuania in a millennium. In this respect these two gymnasiums are the only ones in Lithuania. It should also be mentioned that Greimas attended lectures in Vytautas Magnus University by famous Lithuanian scientists Mykolas Romeris, Vladas Jurgutis, Vosylius Sezemanas and Jonas Bučas who later contributed to laying the foundation for the science of semiotics.
Identifier: 9789955038702
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Philosophies of Performance
edited by Dario Martinelli | Eero Tarasti | Juha Torvinen
Music The Semiotic Society of Finland 9525431371 Available
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Annotation: In the years 2008-2009 The Finnish Academy of Sciences funded a research project entitled PHILOSOPHIES OF PERFORMANCE - Finnish music, art and avant-garde. The project focused on temporal, i.e. performing arts, their background philosophies and signifying processes. The empirical material was mostly about Finnish art. Yet, the idea was to develop also "universal" theoretical models relevant to other traditions and fields. Music served as the core phenomenon but it was also scrutinised in its intertextual connections. This anthology offers some results but also contributions from other scholars whom the project stimulated. The authors are Aurea Dominiguez, Joan Grimalt, Sergio Lanza, Otto Lehto, Grisell Macdonel Dario Martinelli, Bogumila Mika, Lina Navickaté-Martinelli, Pärttyli Rinne, Filip Sikorski, Eero Tarasti, Juha Torvinen, Alessia R. Vitale and Nayden Yotof.
Identifier: 9525431371
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On Musical Self-Similarity
Gabriel Pareyon
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- intersemiosis as synecdoche and analogy
Music International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland 9789525431322 Available
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Annotation: In this study, Gabriel Pareyon presents a theory of musical meaning formation in the context of intersemiosis, that is, the translation of meaning from one cognitive domain to another cognitive domain (e.g. from mathematics to music, or to speech or graphic forms). From this perspective, the degree of coherence of a musical systems relies on a synecdochic intersemiosis: a system of related signs within other comparable and correlated systems. The author analyzes the modalities of such correlations, exploring their general and particular traits, and their operational bounds. Accordingly, the notion analofy is used as a rich concept through its two definitions quoted by the classical literature - proportion and paradigm, enormously valuable in establishinf mesurement, likeness and affinity criteria. At the same time, original arguments by Benoit B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010) are revised, alongside a systematic critique of the literature on the subject. In fact, connecting Charles S. Peirce!s synechism with Mandelbrot's fractality is on of the main developnets of the presents study.
Identifier: 9789525431322
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Music as sign
Maciej Jabłoński
Music International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland 9789525431278 Available
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Annotation: The pupose of this book is twofold: First, being epistemological in nature, it is concerned with identifying methodologically and philosophically valuable achievements of contemporary musical semiotics. The second purpose is a pragmatic one. It stems from the need to interpret the theoretical thought of Eero Tarasti. There is no doubt that today's semiotic-musical thought, in the most general terms, is dominated by two central names and the theories behind them. The names are Jean-Jacques Nattiez and Eero Tarasti. While reconstructing Tarasti's theory, I use the text interpretation method suggested by Gunter Grimm. It originaterd with the general theory of reception formulated by E.D. Hirsch.
Identifier: 9789525431278
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Music breaks in
edited by Vesa Kurkela | Markus Mantere | Heikki Uimonen
Music Tampereen Yliopisto 9789514479724 Available
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Other title information: essays on music radio and radio music in Finland
Annotation: This book brings together research reports and essays on radio music in Finland. The main focus in the writings is one the breakthrough of popular music in local radioscape. The chapters reaise a number of highly important issues in the resent history of radio breoadcasting in Finland: regulation of broadcasting, ideologies of local radio, concentration of ownership, homogenisation of musical contant, patterns of change in radio speech, and processes of music selection. This book is an outcome of the reseach project "Music Cultures and Corporate Cultures: Changes in Music Broadcasting in Finland, 2963-2005", financed by the Academy of Finland.
Identifier: 9789514479724
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Space in musical semiosis
Juhan Ojala
Music International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland | Dept. of Musicology | University of Helsinki 9789525431285 Available
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Other title information: an abductive theory of the musical composition process
Annotation: Space in Musical semiotsis examines key issues of musical signification. It employs C. S. Peirce's semiotics and cognitive metaphor theories to establish a theory of the musical composisiton process, an epitome of musical signification.
Identifier: 9789525431285
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Finland-Italy
edited by Dario Martinelli and Lina Navickaitė
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Culture Umweb 9789525576023 Available
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Other title information: a few comparisons
Annotation: This book consists of a comparative study of the cultures of Italy and Finland, focusing on five cases, including the fields of visual arts, music, popular culture, sports, advertising and anthrozoology.
Identifier: 9789525576023
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Music notation as objects
Kai Lassfolk
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- an object-oriented analysis of the common western music notation system
Music International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland | University of Helsinki | Dept. of Musicology 952543107X Available
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Annotation: This book presents a study of music notation and its computer representation. Music notation is prehaps the most complex notational system invented by a man. As a consequence, its processing by the computer poses complex, but nevertheless interesting problems. The author addresses the question of computer representation of music notation with the aid of another representation tool: object-oriented analysis.
Identifier: 952543107X
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Systems of musical sense
Fulvio Delli Pizzi | Michele Ignelzi | Paolo Rosato
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- essays on the analysis, semiotics, and hermeneutics of music
Music International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland | University of Helsinki | Dept. of Musicology 9525431061 Available
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Annotation: Systems of Musical Sense breathes new life into the field of music semiotics in its intuitive mix of logical rigor and hermeneutical interpretation and unique approach to paradigmatic analysis (Ruwet, Nattiez) and established theories of tinal music (Schoenberg). More significantly, te authors lay out an entirely new and innovative theory in their concept of musical homestasis, a phenomenon closely related to the fundamental law of physics which states that all things set in motion, organic and inorganic, tend to return to their initial point of rest. In tonal music, which also incorporates teology, this can take place at different levels, embodied by various parameters. The sensitive analyses here demonstrate ramifications of this axiom and cast new light on the structuring and effects de sens of tinal genres ranging in diversity from Bach chorales to Wagnerian opera. The culmination of mera tha a decade of research by this tea of widely published music scholars, the book is also a starting point: cognitivists, theorists, musicologists, and others can use the analytic methos "as is", develop it further, or transform it.The systems unvailed here need not be confined to tonal, "common-practice" art music. As universal axiom at least as dependable as the gestaltists "law of good continuation", the theory of homeostasis reveals new dimensions in earlier musical style and thos of more contemporary vintage.
Identifier: 9525431061
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Frames and framing
Richard Littlefield
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- the margins of music analysis
Music International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland 9525431002 Available
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Annotation: A study interested in the frames and the margins of musical analysis.
Identifier: 9525431002
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Intellectual Effort and Linguistic Work
Kristian Bankov
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- Semiotic and Hermeneutic Aspects of the Philosophy of Bergson
Linguistics International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland 9519865403 Available
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Annotation: Bergson discusses the questions of philosophic truth in a way that allows an interpretation in terms of contemporary semiotics and hermeneutics. In his famous "Philosophical intuition" he defines this kind of truth as "something simple, infinitely simple, so extraordinarily simple that the philosopher has never succeded in saying it". This dialectic between intuition and its 'saying' is examined as the hermeneutics of understanding and interpretation. At the same time, this study attempts to open new insights in Bergson's philosophy, and especially in his notion of Intellectual Effort. Kristian Bankov, in his essay, considers this concept not only central to Bergson's philosophy, but also a key to the sign-nature of our whole being and existence in the world.
Identifier: 9519865403
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Approche sémiotique de la représentation de la femme dans la production picturale du surréalisme: le symbolisme de la déesse-lune
CAROLLE GAGNON
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.106.3-4.273
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.106.3-4.273
Contents/Sommaire Volume 106 (1995)
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.106.3-4.403
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.106.3-4.403
Official and unofficial culture: Verbal art and the art of revenge
DAVID K. DANOW
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.106.3-4.245
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.106.3-4.245
Presidential body politics: Movement analysis of debates and press conferences
MARTHA DAVIS
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.106.3-4.205
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.106.3-4.205
Review article
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.106.3-4.301
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.106.3-4.301
Semiosis, continuity, teleology
W. H. KALAGA
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.106.3-4.257
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.106.3-4.257
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.106.3-4.u
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.106.3-4.u
A semiotic analysis of the newspaper coverage of Chernobyl in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Finland
REBECCA KAUFMANN; HENRI BROMS
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.70.1-2.27
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.70.1-2.27
Semiotics in the North — the Tartu School Continued in Finland
Eero Tarasti
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 791-800
The Semiotic Web