A Theory of Musical Semiotics

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.

Author: Eero Tarasti
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 12/22/1994
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.08w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780253356499

About the Author

EERO TARASTI is Professor of Musicology at the University of Helsinki. One of the world's leading semioticians, he is author of Myth and Music, a biography of Heitor Villa-Lobos, and many articles published in journals of musicology and semiotics.