Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of MusicIn this book Jean-Jacques Nattiez, well-known for his pioneering work in musical semiology, examines both music, and discourse about music, as products of human activity that are perceived in varying ways by various cultures. Asking such questions as "what is a musical work" and "what constitutes music," Nattiez draws from philosophy, anthropology, music analysis, and history to propose a global theory for the interpretation of specific pieces, the phenomenon of music, and the human behaviors that music elicits. He reviews issues raised by the notion of the musical sign, and shows how Peircian semiotics, with its image of a chain or web of meanings, applies to a consideration of music's infinite and unstable potential for embodying meaning. |
Contents
A Theory of Semiology | 3 |
The Semiology of the Musical Fact | 39 |
The Concept of Music | 41 |
The Concept of the Musical Work | 69 |
The Status of the SoundObject | 91 |
Musical Meaning The Symbolic Web | 102 |
The Semiology of Discourse on Music | 131 |
The Object of Musical Analysis | 133 |
The Semiology of Musical Analysis | 150 |
The Musicians Discourse | 183 |
Conclusion | 199 |
Theory and Analysis as Symbolic Constructions | 201 |
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