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Music of the Classic and Romantic eras relies so heavily on tonality that it brings into question whether a listener can really appreciate the repertoire without the ability to retain tonal memory. With the analytical aid of the semiotic chart, these designs have a visual as well as an aural shape.
- Douglas Worthen
- 2010
Jan 27, 2022 · Understanding music and musical meaning is a central question in various domains such as philosophy, anthropology, social sciences, semiotics and music education.
Aug 23, 2017 · This chapter sketches recent evolutions of semiotics as applied to music. Rather than providing merely a historical overview, it focuses mainly on the pragmatic turn in semiotics and the role of sensory experience in the process of musical sense-making.
- Mark Reybrouck
- 2017
Musical semiotics begins from the premise that music is a signifying phenomenon. However, the field itself has developed according to two distinct paths. The first one starts by considering music and its history.
In the process, I propose a cognitive semiotic framework imbued with phenomenology that broadens the notion of meaning, by developing Zlatev’s (2018) Semiotic Hierarchy, and apply this to the experience of listening to music, describing the various layers of meaning-making that music evokes.
Nov 1, 2018 · This paper investigates musical semiotics (how listeners experience meanings in music). It discusses what bearing listeners’ experience of meanings may have for their aesthetic experience of...
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Jun 12, 1997 · Abstract and Figures. Identity A first identification of a musical work S takes place by the instanciation of all necessary information to be able to play the music. Naively speaking, one may...
