In this book Jean-Jacques Nattiez, well-known for his pioneering
work in musical semiology, examines both music, and discourse about
music, as products of human activity that are perceived in varying
ways by various cultures. Asking such questions as "what is a
musical work" and "what constitutes music," Nattiez draws from
philosophy, anthropology, music analysis, and history to propose a
global theory for the interpretation of specific pieces, the
phenomenon of music, and the human behaviors that music elicits. He
reviews issues raised by the notion of the musical sign, and shows
how Peircian semiotics, with its image of a chain or web of
meanings, applies to a consideration of music's infinite and
unstable potential for embodying meaning.
In exploring the process of ascribing meaning to music, Nattiez
reviews writings on the psychology of music, non-Western
metaphorical descriptions, music-analytical prose, and writings in
the history of musical aesthetics. A final analytical chapter on
the Tristan chord suggests that interpretations of music are cast
in terms of analytical plots shaped by transcendent principles, and
that any semiological consideration of music must account for these
interpretive narratives.
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