"Since [Tarasti's] is unquestionably the most fully developed narrative theory in the literature, this book is an important landmark . . . " —Music & Letters

This handbook for advanced students explains the various applications to music of methods derived from linguistics and semiotics. The book is aimed at musicians

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 s

An international group of contributors, including leading authorities on music and culture, come together in this volume to investigate different ways in which

Transdisciplinary and intermedial analysis of the experience of music Nowadays musical semiotics no longer ignores the fundamental challenges raised by cognitiv