A Theory of Musical Semiotics
Author: Eero Tarasti
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1994-12-22
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780253356499
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Since [Tarasti's] is unquestionably the most fully developed narrative theory in the literature, this book is an important landmark . . . " —Music & Letters Eero Tarasti advances a semiotic theory of music based on information provided by the history of Western music and by various sign theories. A Theory of Musical Semiotics provides a model for the semiotic analysis of both musical structure and semantics. It introduces English-language readers to musical narratology, which has been largely the province of European researchers.