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"This handbook explains the various applications to music of analytical methods derived from linguistics and semiotics. Semiotics are related to the tradition of music aesthetics and to works such as Deryck Cooke's ""The Language of Music"", and the methods of linguistics are explained in language intelligible to musicians. It contains descriptions of the ""neutral level"", ""semiotic analysis"", transformation and generation, structural semantics and narrative grammar, intonation theory, the ideas of C.S. Peirce and applications in ethnomusicology with diagrams and music examples."

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Author:   Raymond Monelle
Publisher:   Harwood-Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Harwood-Academic Publishers
Volume:   Vol 5
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.450kg
ISBN:  

9783718652099

ISBN 10:   3718652099
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   01 January 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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05/13/02, Ethnodoxology.

Author Information

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.

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