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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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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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Zoosemiotics
Dario Martinelli
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Biology / Biosemiotics International Semiotics Institute 9789525431162 Available
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Other title information: proposals for a handbook
Annotation: Zoosemiotcs is more than forty years old. It was in 1963 when Thomas Sebeok established its birth and, partly, definitons. As most people in their forties, zoosemiotics, too, seems to be driven by a desire to reflect about its life, its identity and its experiences. We know very little about zoosemiotics, and the amount of information at our disposal is sometimes quite confusing, if not confused. Forty years is a very young age, scientifically speaking, for a discipline to answer its most important questions. The present book consists of a series of esssays with a homogenous and causally correlated structure. It summarises all the author's interests in the field, including his attempt to extend the field to the areas of anthrozoology (i.e., the study of the human-other animal relationship) and a string ethical input.
Identifier: 9789525431162
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Music and the Arts
edited by Eero Tarasti
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- 1 edition
Music International Semiotics Institiute 9525431096 Available
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Other title information: Volume II
Annotation: Music, in some forms, declares itself autonomous and absolute. But semiotics has taught us that no sign system can function alone, isolated from other texts. Correspondences and interrelationships of arts have always been fertile soil from which musical meanings to grow. Thus, among the topics of these proceedings, one finds music and painting, ekphrasis, interpretation, semiotic theory of music, pragmatism, aesthetics, topics, narrativity, music and media, opera, cinema, literature, music history, hermeneutics, dance and music psychology. Musical Signification is a world-wide research project that tries to open new avenues for an innovative science of music as a meaningful practice throughout the ages.
Identifier: 9525431096
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Prenatal styles in the arts and the life
Stefania Guerra Lisi | Gino Stefani
Biology / Biosemiotics International Semiotics Institute and Universita Popolare di MusicArTerapia 9525431150 Available
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Annotation: In this book the authors develop a theory of styles of expression that are constituted before birth. The basic assumption is that prenatal life leaves a deep trace on the persons' further development. The authors use this hypothesis to interpret artistic expressions.
Identifier: 9525431150
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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.
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Movement and Poetic Rhythm
Drina Hocevar
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- Uncovering the Musical Signification of Poetic Discourse via The Temporal Dimension of the Sign
Music International Semiotics Institute 9525431063 Available
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Annotation: The musical sense in both poetry and music is fundamentally temporal. The question is not whether music is a language or whether language is music, but rather how the 'musicality' of language signifies. The musical sense of poetry is not only heard but it is also felt. In order to deal with these problems the author, Drina Hocevar, from Venezuela, has elaborated a highly original model. She tries to understand the temporal movement as a generative process, deeply rooted in the ontology of our being.
Identifier: 9525431063
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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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Live Samba
Luiz Fernando Nascimento de Lima
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- Analysis and Interpretation of Brazilian Pagode
Music International Semiotics Institute 9519865497 Available
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Annotation: Live Samba takes as its main topic the pagode movement, which apperead in the 1980s as a re-invention of the samba tradition. Deeply grounded in the most idiosyncratic musical patterns of samba, pagode countered the hegemony of the samba-schools and their media appeal. Pagode, too, became a major commercial success. It appeared in a transitional period, at the moment the music industry was shifting its focus towards lowe classes of the population. As a result, pagode and other local-based styles led the way to a recoinfiguration of Brazilian music. The transitional nature of this moment is reflected in the ambivalent nature of tpagode meanings. Those meanings were firmly attached to the local sphere, while at the same time open to communocation with translocal levels. In Live Samba, the author analyses pagode as a practice comprising both musical traits and symbolic associations with other spheres of Brazilian culture. The book looks at pagode songs through the frames of the samba tradition, of Brazilian society, of the commodity environment, and of musical signification, and it provides an introductory survey of samba and of the Brazilian music indurstry.
Identifier: 9519865497
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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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A semiotics of perceptual modes for reading texts
FLOYD MERRELL
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.3-4.289
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.3-4.289
Prolegomena to a semiotic theory of text interpretation
JØRGEN DINES JOHANSEN
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.3-4.225
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.3-4.225
Review article
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.3-4.369
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.3-4.369
Riddles, legal decisions, and Peirce’s Existential Graphs
ROBERTA KEVELSON
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.3-4.197
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.3-4.197
Special report
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.3-4.385
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.3-4.385
The mask as sign(s) in Nelson Rodrigues’ Dorotéia
FRED M. CLARK
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.3-4.331
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The narrative functions of food in Afanas’ev’s fairy tales
ELIOT A. SINGER
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.3-4.339
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.3-4.339
The puzzles in Ulysses
MARTIN GARDNER
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.3-4.317
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.57.3-4.317