Semiotics of Classical Music

How Mozart, Brahms and Wagner Talk to Us

Eero Tarasti

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English

De Gruyter Mouton
14 September 2012

Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Semiotics & semiology

Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]

"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."

By: Eero Tarasti
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 10
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 855g
ISBN: 9781614511540
ISBN 10: 1614511543
Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]
Pages: 506
Publication Date: 14 September 2012
Recommended Age: College Graduate Student
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eero Tarasti, University of Helsinki, Finland.