Playing With Signs

Author : V. Kofi Agawu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400861835

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Playing with Signs by V. Kofi Agawu Pdf

Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyze the so-called Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this condition. Playing with Signs proposes a listener-oriented theory of Classic instrumental music that encompasses its two most fundamental communicative dimensions: expression and structure. Units of expression, defined in reference to topoi, are shown here to interact with, confront, and merge into units of structure, defined in terms of the rhetorical conventions of beginning, continuing, and ending. The book draws on examples from works by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven to show that the explicitly referential, even theatrical, surface of Classic music derives from a play with signs. Although addressed primarily to readers interested in musical analysis, the book opens up fruitful avenues for further research into musical semiotics, aesthetics, and Classicism. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Victor Kofi Agawu
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN : 0691091382

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Playing with Signs by Victor Kofi Agawu Pdf

Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyze the so-called Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this condition. Playing with Signs proposes a listener-oriented theory of Classic instrumental music that encompasses its two most fundamental communicative dimensions: expression and structure. Units of expression, defined in reference to topoi, are shown here to interact with, confront, and merge into units of structure, defined in terms of the rhetorical conventions of beginning, continuing, and ending. The book draws on examples from works by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven to show that the explicitly referential, even theatrical, surface of Classic music derives from a play with signs. Although addressed primarily to readers interested in musical analysis, the book opens up fruitful avenues for further research into musical semiotics, aesthetics, and Classicism. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Robert E. Innis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015029950923

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Consciousness and the Play of Signs by Robert E. Innis Pdf

In Consciousness and the Play of Signs, Robert E. Innis offers a brilliant study of the relationship between philosophy and semiotics. Taking up the problem as foregrounded by Eco, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Goodman, and Rorty, Innis reformulates and reconfigures the philosophical and semiotic premises and frameworks of a descriptively adequate theory of knowledge. In so doing he opens the way to a cultural and historical epistemology of embodied knowledge forms. Innis bases his analysis primarily, though by no means exclusively, on conceptual tools derived from deep and sophisticated readings of Peirce, Polanyi, Dewey, Buhler, Husserl, and Cassirer. He explores the variety of contexts - including the motoric, the perceptual, the aesthetic, the linguistic, and the theoretical - in which semiotic and nonsemiotic factors in consciousness and world building can be related without blurring their crucial differences or irreconcilably opposing them to one another. This book heightens our understanding of ourselves and intersects with all those disciplines concerned with the production and interpretation of meaning.

Author : Stanley Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sign language
ISBN : 1930820410

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First Signs at Play by Stanley Collins Pdf

A continuation of First Signs to include more first words for babies and parents, but this time in the play setting.

Author : Cozumel Publishing Company,S. Arroyo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Austin (Tex.)
ISBN : 0692979301

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El Arroyo's Big Book of Signs Volume One by Cozumel Publishing Company,S. Arroyo Pdf

The Tex-Mex restaurant's famous marquee sign, whose black letters tell a new joke to passing motorists each day, is featured in "El Arroyo's Big Book of Signs: Volume One." 158 signs to enjoy8"x8" Hardback

Author : Joan Holub
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780399172250

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Runaway Signs by Joan Holub Pdf

When the road signs take a vacation, chaos and hilarity ensue--and they quickly learn how important they are. School is ending for the summer, and the stick figures on the school crossing sign are jealous of all the vacation plans they hear the students making. The stick figures work hard--maybe they deserve a vacation, too! So they abandon their signpost and set off on an adventure, inviting along all the other underappreciated road signs they meet on the way. It's all fun and games for a while, especially when they stumble upon a fantastic amusement park. But the people they've left behind are feeling their absence, and soon there are traffic tangles and lost pedestrians everywhere. The signs are more important than they realized, and now it's time for them to save the day!

Author : Alix Ohlin
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770892095

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Signs and Wonders by Alix Ohlin Pdf

A New York Times Editors' Choice and an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick In this brilliant new collection, Scotiabank Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize nominee Alix Ohlin skillfully displays the full range of human emotions through the subtly powerful dramas of everyday life. In "You Are What You Like" a young couple finds their life derailed by the arrival of a hard-partying old friend. In "Robbing the Cradle" Lisette does everything she can to give her husband a baby, committing an act of desperation. In "The Idea Man" Beth, a divorcee, falls in love with a man who lies for fun. And in the incredible title story, Kathleen finds herself sitting at the hospital bedside of a man she had planned to divorce, comforted by the woman she went out of her way to hurt. These characters are divorced and beginning to date again, childless and longing for children, married and aching for more. Often unexpected and unsettling, always fascinating, Signs and Wonders showcases a young writer of remarkable range and emotional depth.

Author : Robert Moss
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781608683369

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Sidewalk Oracles by Robert Moss Pdf

Synchronicity is when the universe gets personal. Through this book of games and enchanting stories, you’ll learn how to monitor the play of coincidence and the symbolic resonance of incidents in daily life in order to tap into the deeper logic of events, receive extraordinary counsel, and have wonderful fun. You will be invited to become a kairomancer: someone who is poised to catch the messages in special moments when synchronicity is in play — and to take action to seize the opportunities those moments present. To be a kairomancer, you need to trust your feelings as you walk the roads of this world, to develop your personal science of shivers, and to recognize in your gut and your skin that you know far more than you hold on the surface of consciousness. This is a way of real magic, which is the art of bringing gifts from a deeper world into this one. Follow it, and you will put a champagne fizz of enchantment into your everyday life.

Author : Heather Kuhaneck,Susan L. Spitzer
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781284262902

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Making Play Just Right: Unleashing the Power of Play in Occupational Therapy by Heather Kuhaneck,Susan L. Spitzer Pdf

At the heart of Making Play Just Right: Unleashing the Power of Play in Occupational Therapy is the belief that the most effective way to ensure pediatric occupational therapy is through incorporating play. The Second Edition is a unique resource on pediatric activity and therapy analysis for occupational therapists and students. This text provides the background, history, evidence, and general knowledge needed to use a playful approach to pediatric occupational therapy, as well as the specific examples and recommendations needed to help therapists adopt these strategies.

Author : Rosemary Altea
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365951817

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Soul Signs by Rosemary Altea Pdf

Author : Poonam Trivedi,Minami Ryuta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135272241

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Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia by Poonam Trivedi,Minami Ryuta Pdf

In this critical volume, leading scholars in the field examine the performance of Shakespeare in Asia. Emerging out of the view that it is in "play" or performance, and particularly in intercultural / multicultural performance, that the cutting edge of Shakespeare studies is to be found, the essays in this volume pay close attention to the modes of transference of the language of the text into the alternative languages of Asian theatres; to the history and politics of the performance of Shakespeare in key locations in Asia; to the new Asian experimentation with indigenous forms via Shakespeare and the consequent revitalizing and revising of the traditional boundaries of genre and gender; and to Shakespeare as a cultural capital world wide. Focusing specifically on the work of major directors in the central and emerging areas of Asia – Japan, China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines - the chapters in this volume encompass a broader and more representative swath of Asian performances and locations in one book than has been attempted till now.

Author : Eero Tarasti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110899870

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Signs of Music by Eero Tarasti Pdf

Music is said to be the most autonomous and least representative of all the arts. However, it reflects in many ways the realities around it and influences its social and cultural environments. Music is as much biology, gender, gesture - something intertextual, even transcendental. Musical signs can be studied throughout their history as well as musical semiotics with its own background. Composers from Chopin to Sibelius and authors from Nietzsche to Greimas and Barthes illustrate the avenues of this new discipline within semiotics and musicology.

Author : SunHee Kim Gertz,Jaan Valsiner,Jean-Paul Breaux
Publisher : IAP
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781607527145

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Semiotic Rotations by SunHee Kim Gertz,Jaan Valsiner,Jean-Paul Breaux Pdf

The title of our volume on interdisciplinary semiotics is situated in a geographical metaphor and points to the possibility of uncovering meanings through shifting perspectives as well as to the possibility of understanding how these various modes of meaning are articulated and framed in particular cultural instances. Regardless of medium, semiotic rotations permit play between the surface and underlying levels of a communication, reveal the relationship between open and closed systems of signification, and modulate shades of meaning caught between the visible and invisible. Readerly play in these sets of apparent oppositions reveals that the less each pairing is held to be a coupling of oppositions and the more they are observed through perspectives gained by semiotic rotations, then the more complex and rich the modes of meaning may become.

Author : Mari C. Schuh
Publisher : Lerner Publications (Tm)
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Advertising
ISBN : 9781467794657

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Let's Find Ads on Signs by Mari C. Schuh Pdf

Introduces readers to evaluating and identifying the advertisements they see on signs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Child's Play International
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000057248585

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My First Signs by Anonim Pdf

Contains over forty key words based on American Sign Language.