Signs of Music: A Guide to Musical Semiotics

Eight essays and articles Finish scholar Tarasti has mostly written since his 1994 Theory of Musical Semiotics trace his development of a new philosophical theory called existential semiotics. He intends them to provide a practical guide to studying music as sign and communication, combining his own ideas with those of recent musicology in general. They cover music as sign; gender, biology, and transcendence; and social and musical practices. Only names are indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR