Linguistics and Semiotics in Music

ISBN-13: 9783718652099 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 349 str.

Raymond Monelle

Opis

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Recenzje

"05/13/02, Ethnodoxology."

Spis treści

Introduction to the Series, Preface, Copyright Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction: Music and Meaning, 2. Linguistic and Structuralist Theory, from Saussure to Piaget, 3. Metalanguage, Segmentation and Repetition, 4. The Analysis of the Neutral Level, 5. Transformation and Generation, 6. Linguistics and World Music, 7. Icon, Index and Symbol, 8. Semantics and Narrative Grammar, 9. The Theory of Intonation, 10. Deconstruction and Allegory, 11. Epilogue, Bibliography, Index of persons

O autorze

Raymond Monelle studied at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he gained an MA in modern history in 1960. He then received a BMus at the Royal College of Music, London, in 1966 and a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1979. He has written widely on Italian opera seria (his research thesis subject) and the semiotics and semantics of music. He is well-known for his music reviews of opera and concerts throughout Scotland in The Independent. He is also a conductor and composer and has lectured in Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia. He is currently senior lecturer in music at the University of Edinburgh.