Main description: Music intrudes to our most intimate subjectivity, thus making it a privileged field to which so-called "existential semiotics", a new theory and philosophy developed by the author himself, may be applied. Using new semiotic methods and analyses as the fulcrum o…
by Dineen, Phillip Murray, Zbikowski, Lawrence M., Windsor, W. Luke, King, Elaine, Ginsborg, Jane, Graybill, Roger, Trevarthen, Colwyn, Kuhl, Ole, Gritten, Anthony, Rink, John, Dogantan-Dack, Mine, Clayton, Martin, Delafield-Butt, Jonathan, Gold, Nicolas, Leante, Laura, Rahaim, Matt, Schogler, Benjamin, Spiro, Neto, Fatone, Gina, Godoy, Rolf Inge, Luck, Geoff
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by Zbikowski, Lawrence Michael
fromOxford studies in music theory
by Zbikowski, Lawrence Michael
fromOxford studies in music theory
How is it that humans are able to organize seemingly random sounds into the captivating sonic structures we call music? In this volume, Lawrence M. Zbikowski aruges that humans' unique ability to correlate sounds with dynamic processes provides the basis for the construction of …
by Zbikowski, Lawrence Michael
fromOxford studies in music theory
'Foundations of Musical Grammar' makes a unique contribution to music theory by building on recent research in cognitive science and theoretical perspectives adopted from cognitive linguistics to present an account of the foundations of musical grammar. In presenting this accoun…
by Zbikowski, Lawrence Michael
fromOxford studies in music theory
by Zbikowski, Lawrence Michael
fromOxford studies in music theory
'Foundations of Musical Grammar' makes a unique contribution to music theory by building on recent research in cognitive science and theoretical perspectives adopted from cognitive linguistics to present an account of the foundations of musical grammar. In presenting this accoun…
by Zbikowski, Lawrence Michael
fromOxford studies in music theory
How is it that humans are able to organize seemingly random sounds into the captivating sonic structures we call music? In this volume, Lawrence M. Zbikowski argues that humans' unique ability to correlate sounds with dynamic processes provides the basis for the construction of …
by Zbikowski, Lawrence Michael
fromOxford studies in music theory
by Zbikowski, Lawrence Michael
fromOxford studies in music theory
How is it that humans are able to organize seemingly random sounds into the captivating sonic structures we call music? In this volume, Lawrence M. Zbikowski argues that humans' unique ability to correlate sounds with dynamic processes provides the basis for the construction of …
by Zbikowski, Lawrence Michael
fromOxford studies in music theory
Foundations of Musical Grammar makes a unique contribution to music theory by building on recent research in cognitive science and theoretical perspectives adopted from cognitive linguistics to present an account of the foundations of musical grammar. In presenting this account,…
"This book explores what speech, music and other sounds have in common. It gives a detailed description of the way perspective, rhythm, textual quality and other aspects of sound are used to communicate emotion and meaning. It draws on a wealth of examples from radio (disk jocke…
Drawing on a wide range of phonetic, linguistic, pragmatic, semiotic and musicological sources, this book concentrates on the communicative theory of sound.
This text explores what speech, music and other sounds have in common. It gives a description of the way perspective, rhythm, textual quality and other aspects of sound are used to communicate emotion and meaning.
Investigates different ways in which music signifies. This title deals with the relationship between music and philosophy, literature, poetry, folk traditions and the theatre, with opera a genre that particularly lends itself to this mode of investigation.
"United in their indebtedness to the scholarship of Raymond Monelle, an international group of contributors, including leading authorities on music and culture, come together in this state of the art volume to investigate different ways in which music signifies. Music semiotics …
