Semiosis In Hindustani Music

Author : José Luiz Martinez
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 8120818016

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Semiosis in Hindustani Music by José Luiz Martinez Pdf

For thousands of years music in India has been considered a signifying art. Indian music creates and represents meanings of all kings, some of which extend outwardly to the cosmos, while others arise inwardly, in the refined feelings which a musical connoisseur experiences when listening to it. In this book the author explores signification in Hindustani classical music along a two-fold path. Martineq first constructs a theory of musical semiotics based on the sign-theories of Charles Sanders Peirce. He then applies his theory to the analysis of various types of Hindustani music and how they generate significations. The author engages such fundamental issues as sound quality, raga, tala and form, while advancing his unique interpretations of well-known semiotic phenomena like iconicity, metalanguage, indexicality, symbolism, Martinez`s study also provides deep insight into semiotic issues of musical perception, performance, scholarship, and composition. An specially innovative and extensive section of the book analyzes representations in Hindustani music in terms of the Indian aesthetic theory of rasa. The evolution of the rasa system as applied to musical structures is traced historically and analyzed semiotically. In the light of Martinez`s theories, Hindustani music reveals itself to be both a delightfully sensuous and highly sophisticated system of acoustic representations.

Author : Eero Tarasti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614511410

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Semiotics of Classical Music by Eero Tarasti Pdf

Musical semiotics is a new discipline and paradigm of both semiotics and musicology. In its tradition, the current volume constitutes a radically new solution to the theoretical problem of how musical meanings emerge and how they are transmitted by musical signs even in most "absolute" and abstract musical works of Western classical heritage. Works from symphonies, lied, chamber music to opera are approached and studied here with methods of semiotic inspiration. Its analyses stem from systematic methods in the author's previous work, yet totally new analytic concepts are also launched in order to elucidate profound musical significations verbally. The book reflects the new phase in the author's semiotic approach, the one characterized by the so-called "existential semiotics" elaborated on the basis of philosophers from Kant , Hegel and Kierkegaard to Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre and Marcel. The key notions like musical subject, Schein, becoming, temporality, modalities, Dasein, transcendence put musical facts in a completely new light and perspectives of interpretation. The volume attempts to make explicit what is implicit in every musical interpretation, intuition and understanding: to explain how compositions and composers "talk" to us. Its analyses are accessible due to the book's universal approach. Music is experienced as a language, communicating from one subject to another.

Author : Esti Sheinberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351557191

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Music Semiotics: A Network of Significations by Esti Sheinberg Pdf

United in their indebtedness to the scholarship of Raymond Monelle, an international group of contributors, including leading authorities on music and culture, come together in this state of the art volume to investigate different ways in which music signifies. Music semiotics asks what music signifies as well as how the signification process takes place. Looking at the nature of musical texts and music's narrativity, a number of the essays in this collection delve into the relationship between music and philosophy, literature, poetry, folk traditions and the theatre, with opera a genre that particularly lends itself to this mode of investigation. Other contributions look at theories of musical markedness, metaphor and irony, using examples and specific musical texts to serve as case studies to validate their theoretical approaches. Musical works discussed include those by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, Stravinsky, Bart?Xenakis, Kutavicius and John Adams, offering stimulating discussions of music that attest to its beauty as much as to its intellectual challenge. Taking Monelle's writing as a model, the contributions adhere to a method of logical argumentation presented in a civilized and respectful way, even - and particularly - when controversial issues are at stake, keeping in mind that contemplating the significance of music is a way to contemplate life itself.

Author : Eero Tarasti,Paul Forsell,Richard Littlefield
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism & Collections
ISBN : 0253329493

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Musical Semiotics in Growth by Eero Tarasti,Paul Forsell,Richard Littlefield Pdf

The international research project on Musical Signification, since its founding over ten years ago, has sought to win new scholars to musical semiotics. To that end, the Department of Musicology at Helsinki University has already organized five international doctoral and postdoctoral seminars. They have become something of a tradition. The anthology consists of papers presented in the three first seminars covering areas from music philosophy and aesthetics to the analysis of vocal and instrumental as well as electro-acoustic music, interrelationships of arts, music history, post-modernism, etc.

Author : David Lidov
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0253343836

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Is Language a Music? by David Lidov Pdf

If music is a universal language, is language a universal music?

Author : Dorothy Miell,Raymond MacDonald,David J. Hargreaves
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 0198529368

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Musical Communication by Dorothy Miell,Raymond MacDonald,David J. Hargreaves Pdf

"Bringing together leading researchers from a variety of academic and applied backgrounds, this book examines how music can be used to communicate, as well as the biological, cognitive, social, and cultural processes which underlie such communication."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Paolo Pacciolla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000060010

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The Indian Drum of the King-God and the Pakhāvaj of Nathdwara by Paolo Pacciolla Pdf

The book studies the evolution of the ancient drum mṛdaṅga into the pakhāvaj, crossing more than 2,000 years of history. While focusing on the Nathdwara school of pakhāvaj, the author joins ethnographic, historical, religious and iconographic perspectives to argue a multifaceted interpretation of the role and function of the pakhāvaj in royal courts, temples and contemporary stages. Furthermore, he offers the first analysis of the visual and narrative contents of its repertoire.

Author : Janet Sturman
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 2730 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781483317748

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The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture by Janet Sturman Pdf

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture presents key concepts in the study of music in its cultural context and provides an introduction to the discipline of ethnomusicology, its methods, concerns, and its contributions to knowledge and understanding of the world's musical cultures, styles, and practices. The diverse voices of contributors to this encyclopedia confirm ethnomusicology's fundamental ethos of inclusion and respect for diversity. Combined, the multiplicity of topics and approaches are presented in an easy-to-search A-Z format and offer a fresh perspective on the field and the subject of music in culture. Key features include: Approximately 730 signed articles, authored by prominent scholars, are arranged A-to-Z and published in a choice of print or electronic editions Pedagogical elements include Further Readings and Cross References to conclude each article and a Reader’s Guide in the front matter organizing entries by broad topical or thematic areas Back matter includes an annotated Resource Guide to further research (journals, books, and associations), an appendix listing notable archives, libraries, and museums, and a detailed Index The Index, Reader’s Guide themes, and Cross References combine for thorough search-and-browse capabilities in the electronic edition

Author : Eero Tarasti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Gabriel Pareyón
Publisher : Gabriel Pareyon
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789525431322

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On Musical Self-similarity by Gabriel Pareyón Pdf

Author : Ole Kühl
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3039117181

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Musical Semantics by Ole Kühl Pdf

Music offers a new insight into human cognition. The musical play with sounds in time, in which we share feelings, gestures and narratives, has fascinated people from all times and cultures. The author studies this semiotic behavior in the light of research from a number of sources. Being an analytical study, the volume combines evidence from neurobiology, developmental psychology and cognitive science. It aims to bridge the gap between music as an empirical object in the world and music as lived experience. This is the semantic aspect of music: how can something like an auditory stream of structured sound evoke such a strong reaction in the listener? The book is in two parts. In the first part, the biological foundations of music and their cognitive manifestations are considered in order to establish a groundwork for speaking of music in generic, cross-cultural terms. The second part develops the semantic aspect of music as an embodied, emotively grounded and cognitively structured expression of human experience.

Author : Victoria Lindsay Levine,Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442242081

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This Thing Called Music by Victoria Lindsay Levine,Philip V. Bohlman Pdf

The most fundamental subject of music scholarship provides the common focus of this volume of essays: music itself. For the distinguished scholars from the field of musicology and related areas of the humanities and social sciences, the search for music itself—in its vastly complex and diverse forms throughout the world—characterizes the lifetime of reflection and writing by Bruno Nettl, the leading ethnomusicologist of the past generation. This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl salutes not only a great scholar and beloved teacher, but also a thinker whose search for the meaning and ontology of music has exerted a global influence. Editors Victoria Lindsay Levine and Philip V. Bohlman have gathered essays that represent the many dimensions of musical meaning, addressing some of the most critically important areas of music scholarship today. The social formations of musical communities play counterpoint to analytical studies; investigations into musical change and survival connect ethnography to history, offering a collection of essays that can serve as an invaluable resource for the intellectual history of ethnomusicology. Each chapter explores music and its meanings in specific geographic areas—North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East—crossing the boundaries of genre, repertory, and style to provide insight into the aesthetic zones of contact between and among the folk, classical, and popular musics of the world. Readers from all disciplines of music scholarship will find in this collection a proper companion in an era of globalization, when the connections that draw musicians and musical practices together are more sweeping than ever. Chapters offer models for detailed analysis of specific musical practices, while at the same time they make possible new methods of comparative study in the twenty-first century, together posing a challenge crucial to all musicians and scholars in search of “this thing called music.”

Author : Eero Tarasti,Paul Forsell,Richard Littlefield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015057535992

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Musical Semiotics Revisited by Eero Tarasti,Paul Forsell,Richard Littlefield Pdf

Author : William Echard
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253217687

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Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy by William Echard Pdf

A provocative, multifaceted look at a rock icon.

Author : Dipak Ghosh,Ranjan Sengupta,Shankha Sanyal,Archi Banerjee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811065118

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Musicality of Human Brain through Fractal Analytics by Dipak Ghosh,Ranjan Sengupta,Shankha Sanyal,Archi Banerjee Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how fractal analytics can lead to the extraction of interesting features from the complex electroencephalograph (EEG) signals generated by Hindustani classical music. It particularly focuses on how the brain responses to the emotional attributes of Hindustani classical music that have been long been a source of discussion for musicologists and psychologists. Using robust scientific techniques that are capable of looking into the most intricate dynamics of the complex EEG signals, it deciphers the human brain’s response to different ragas of Hindustani classical music, shedding new light on what happens inside the performer’s brain when they are mentally composing the imagery of a particular raga. It also explores the much- debated issue in the musical fraternity of whether there are any universal cues in music that make it identifiable for people throughout the world, and if so, what are the neural correlates associated with the universal cues? This book is of interest to researchers and scholars of music and the brain, nonlinear science, music cognition, music signal processing and music information retrieval. In addition, researchers in the field of nonlinear biomedical signal processing and music signal analysis benefit from this book.