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Semiotics of Classical Music : How Mozart, Brahms and Wagner Talk to Us / Eero Tarasti.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] ; 10Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (493 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781614511540
  • 9781614511410
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 780.1/4 23
LOC classification:
  • ML3845 .T347 2012
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prelude: Music – A Philosophico-Semiotic Approach -- Chapter 1. Introduction to a Philosophy of Music -- Part I. THE CLASSICAL STYLE -- Chapter 2. Mozart, or, the Idea of a Continuous Avant-garde -- Chapter 3. Existential and Transcendental Analysis of Music -- Chapter 4. Listening to Beethoven: Universal or National, Classic or Romantic? -- Part II. The Romantic Era -- Chapter 5. The irony of romanticism -- Chapter 6. “… ein leiser Ton gezogen …”: Robert Schumann’s Fantasie in C major (op. 17) in the light of existential semiotics -- Chapter 7. Brahms and the “Lyric I”: A Hermeneutic Sign Analysis -- Chapter 8. Brünnhilde’s Choice; or, a Journey into Wagnerian Semiosis: Intuitions and Hypotheses -- Chapter 9. Do Wagner’s leitmotifs have a system? -- Part III. Rhetorics and Synaesthesias -- Chapter 10. Proust and Wagner -- Chapter 11. Rhetoric and Musical Discourse -- Chapter 12. The semiosis of light in music: from synaesthesias to narratives -- Chapter 13. The implicit musical semiotics of Marcel Proust -- Chapter 14. M. K. Čiurlionis and the interrelationships of arts -- Chapter 15. Čiurlionis, Sibelius and Nietzsche: Three profiles and interpretations -- Part IV. In the Slavonic World -- Chapter 16. An essay on Russian music -- Chapter 17. The stylistic development of a composer as a cognition of the musicologist: Bohuslav Martinů -- Postlude I -- Chapter 18. Do Semantic Aspects of Music Have a Notation? -- Postlude II -- Chapter 19. Music – Superior Communication -- Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography -- Index of persons and musical works
Summary: 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 inspiration. Its analyses stem from systematic methods in the author's previous work, yet totally new analytic concepts are also launched in order to elucidate profound musical significations verbally. The book reflects the new phase in the author's semiotic approach, the one characterized by the so-called "existential semiotics" elaborated on the basis of philosophers from Kant , Hegel and Kierkegaard to Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre and Marcel. The key notions like musical subject, Schein, becoming, temporality, modalities, Dasein, transcendence put musical facts in a completely new light and perspectives of interpretation. The volume attempts to make explicit what is implicit in every musical interpretation, intuition and understanding: to explain how compositions and composers "talk" to us. Its analyses are accessible due to the book's universal approach. Music is experienced as a language, communicating from one subject to another.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prelude: Music – A Philosophico-Semiotic Approach -- Chapter 1. Introduction to a Philosophy of Music -- Part I. THE CLASSICAL STYLE -- Chapter 2. Mozart, or, the Idea of a Continuous Avant-garde -- Chapter 3. Existential and Transcendental Analysis of Music -- Chapter 4. Listening to Beethoven: Universal or National, Classic or Romantic? -- Part II. The Romantic Era -- Chapter 5. The irony of romanticism -- Chapter 6. “… ein leiser Ton gezogen …”: Robert Schumann’s Fantasie in C major (op. 17) in the light of existential semiotics -- Chapter 7. Brahms and the “Lyric I”: A Hermeneutic Sign Analysis -- Chapter 8. Brünnhilde’s Choice; or, a Journey into Wagnerian Semiosis: Intuitions and Hypotheses -- Chapter 9. Do Wagner’s leitmotifs have a system? -- Part III. Rhetorics and Synaesthesias -- Chapter 10. Proust and Wagner -- Chapter 11. Rhetoric and Musical Discourse -- Chapter 12. The semiosis of light in music: from synaesthesias to narratives -- Chapter 13. The implicit musical semiotics of Marcel Proust -- Chapter 14. M. K. Čiurlionis and the interrelationships of arts -- Chapter 15. Čiurlionis, Sibelius and Nietzsche: Three profiles and interpretations -- Part IV. In the Slavonic World -- Chapter 16. An essay on Russian music -- Chapter 17. The stylistic development of a composer as a cognition of the musicologist: Bohuslav Martinů -- Postlude I -- Chapter 18. Do Semantic Aspects of Music Have a Notation? -- Postlude II -- Chapter 19. Music – Superior Communication -- Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography -- Index of persons and musical works

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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 inspiration. Its analyses stem from systematic methods in the author's previous work, yet totally new analytic concepts are also launched in order to elucidate profound musical significations verbally. The book reflects the new phase in the author's semiotic approach, the one characterized by the so-called "existential semiotics" elaborated on the basis of philosophers from Kant , Hegel and Kierkegaard to Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre and Marcel. The key notions like musical subject, Schein, becoming, temporality, modalities, Dasein, transcendence put musical facts in a completely new light and perspectives of interpretation. The volume attempts to make explicit what is implicit in every musical interpretation, intuition and understanding: to explain how compositions and composers "talk" to us. Its analyses are accessible due to the book's universal approach. Music is experienced as a language, communicating from one subject to another.

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