Inhalt
- Chapter 1. Is music sign? 3
- Chapter 2. Signs in music history, history of music semiotics 27
- Chapter 3. Signs as acts and events: On musical situations 65
- PART TWO: GENDER, BIOLOGY, AND TRANSCENDENCE
- Chapter 4. Metaphors of nature and organicism in music: A “biosemiotic” approach 91
- Chapter 5. The emancipation of the sign: On corporeal and gestural meanings in music 117
- Chapter 6. Body and transcendence in Chopin 129
- PART THREE: SOCIAL AND MUSICAL PRACTICES
- Chapter 7. Voice and identity 157
- Chapter 8. On the semiosis of musical improvisation: From Mastersingers to Bororo indians 179
- Notes 199
- References 201
- Name index