Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm
Semiotic and aesthetic aspects
Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm
ISBN: 978-3-8325-4466-9
Verlag: Logos Berlin
This book is an attempt to reconsider an area that has become semiotically unknown: musical notation in its twentieth-century developments. This study offers an introductory reflection on the semiotics of notation, which is considered both as a reflection on notation in light of semiotics and a semiotic work that is proper to the notation as such.
On the one hand, it is a matter of taking into account the historicity of the phenomenon and the semiotic reflection that has stimulated it; the particular scale of the problem in the period 1950-70 is investigated in relation to causes that could be defined both as ``internal'' (the changed state of musical matter, serial and post-serial compositional practices, happening and improvisation) and ``external'' (the relationship with other sectors of culture: from visual arts to literature, and to philosophy).
On the other hand, the examples considered in the text are a test bench of absolute importance for the observation of the dynamics underlying a semiotically central problem such as that of notation, and of the double order (between the signifier and the signified) that it immediately evokes.
