Anläßlich des Second International Congress of Musical Signification, der 1988 an der Universität Helsinki stattfand, kamen Musikwissenschaftler, Komponisten, Semiotiker und Philosophen zusammen, um musikalische Phänomene auf ihrer Bedeutungsebene zu diskutieren.
Im Anschluß an diesen Kongreß wurden die wissenschaftlich bedeutendsten Vorträge zum dem vorliegenden Band zusammengetragen. Dieser reflektiert den enormen Fortschritt, der während der letzten zwanzig Jahre innerhalb einer relativ neuen Subdisziplin der Semiotik, der Musiksemiotik, erreicht wurde. Somit enthält "Musical Signification" die vollständigste Anthologie der derzeitigen Diskussion innerhalb der Musiksemiotik.

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Frontmatter -- Preface / Tarasti, Eero -- Contents -- Theoretical approaches -- Method and system / Mâche, François-Bernard -- Toward a reinterpretation of compositional theory / Lidov, David -- Music and antimetaphor / Charles, Daniel -- The sign and music: A reflection on the theoretical bases of musical semiotics / Mirigliano, Rosario -- How philosophical characterizations of a musical work lose sight of the "music" and how it might be put back / Grund, Cynthia M. -- Interpretation and meaning in music / Christensen, Otto M. -- Music and semantics / Monelle, Raymond -- The application of Hjelmslev's glossematics to music / Henrotte, Gayle A. -- The musical work as sign: Significative constituents, layers, structure / Tarnawska-Kaczorowska, Krystyna -- Asaf'ev and Tynianov: On some analogies between musicology and the study of literature / Kon, Joseph -- Intonation as a specific form of musical semiosis / Jiránek, Jaroslav -- Musical intonation - language of intuition and logic: A contribution to the system of the semiotics of intonation in music / Medushevsky, Viatscheslav -- Empirical studies -- "The voice of the heart": A progressive semiosis on the interval of the sixth / Stefani, Gino -- Pertinence in music / Marconi, Luca -- Meaning and behavior patterns: The creation of meaning in interpreting and listening to music / Delalande, François -- On the genesis of the musical sign / Karbusicky, Vladimir -- Art evolution in the light of brain asymmetry: A trial of empirical investigation / Petrov, Vladimir M. -- A semio-psychological theory of communication in music / Kulka, Jirí -- Character and characterization in musical performance: Effects of sensory experience upon meaning / Pierce, Alexandra -- Tempo deviations and musical signification: A case study / Kurkela, Kari -- The pitch of glide-like F0 curves in Votic folksongs / Ross, Jaan -- The concept of hierarchy: A theoretical approach / Baroni, Mario / Dalmonte, Rossana / Jacoboni, Carlo -- Musical pragmatics and computer modelling / Marsden, Alan A. -- Some relationships between terminology, analytic strategies, and computational methodologies / Ligabue, Marco -- Semiotic bases and computer assisted composition: Towards a cognitive model / Giomi, Francesco / Ligabue, Marco -- Experiments on grammar-based analysis of music / Tiits, Kalev -- Analyses of musical styles and texts -- Metaphor in music / Hatten, Robert S. -- Performative musical acts: The Verdian achievement / Beghelli, Marco -- Peirce's "ground" and 19th-century Lieder / Mosley, David L. -- The couples who remain: With reference to "Ici-bas" by Sully Prudhomme and Fauré / Vouga, Vera -- "Apres un rêve": A semiotic analysis of the song by Gabriel Fauré / Tarasti, Eero -- The problem of narrativity in the symphonic poem En saga by Jean Sibelius / Murtomäki, Veijo -- Orchestration and form in Leos Janácek's Concertino: An analysis of intratextural interaction / Mäkelä, Tomi -- "Music becomes language": Narrative strategies in El cimarrón by Hans-Werner Henze / Stoianova, Ivanka -- Narrativity and electroacoustic music / Grabócz, Márta -- On the sound dimension of prehistoric painted caves and rocks / Reznikoff, Iégor -- The mythical in non-programmatic music / Normet, Leo -- The symbol of the tree in musical Jugendstil / Doubravová, Jarmila -- Aspects of the "Dance of Death" as a semiotic system / Sikora, Gaby -- Authors -- Index