Transdisciplinary and intermedial analysis of the experience of music Nowadays musical
semiotics no longer ignores the fundamental challenges raised by cognitive sciences …

Research on the meaning of music has a long tradition, with approaches from several fields,
but it lacks a coherent framework for interdisciplinary discussions. As a result, the notion of …

The history of aesthetics and of philosophical thought related to music demonstrates a
dichotomy, a dual approach, one aspect of which emphasizes the purely theoretical …

Theorists and musicologists have asked what particular musical works mean, what particular
musical objects represent, what they narrate or disclose, and how those meanings got there …

Music is said to be the most autonomous and least representative of all the arts. However, it
reflects in many ways the realities around it and influences its social and cultural …

This collection of articles cannot be taken merely as congress proceedings, although its texts
center round the symposium held in Helsinki in 1988. After this event the publication has …

In this chapter, the author offers the reflections on his intellectual journey because he
believe that a semiotic theory of musical style can be fruitful in grounding interpretations of …

This essay reviews three books, two tardily, one preemptively. I am tardy with Eero Tarasti's
Theory of Semiotics.^ I am still more tardy in responding to Mdrta Grab6cz's Morphologie …

In this article, I theorize a new conception of musical meaning, based on JL Austin's theory of
performative utterances in his treatise How to Do Things with Words. Austin theorizes …

The disciplines of music theory and musicology have long given highest status to the score
as the site of meaning, an approach that has seen performance as a form of mediation …