A sounding of signs
Subtitle: modalities and moments in music, culture, and philosophy : essays in honor of Eero Tarasti on his 60th anniversary
By: edited by Robert S. Hatten, Pirjo Kukkonen, Richard Littlefield, Harri Veivo, and Irma Vierimaa
Contributors: International Semiotics Institute
Series: Acta semiotica Fennica -- 30; Acta semiotica Fennica -- 30.
Publisher: International Semiotics Institute
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Imatra, Finland
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9789525431230
Subjects: Music; Semiotics; Philosophy and aesthetics
Notes: "In honor of Professor Eero Tarasti on his 60th anniversary, 27 September, 2008."

"Tabula Gratulatoria" inserted in front.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English and French.
Table of contents: title: Semiotics of music and musicology. Classical narratology and narrative analyses in music / Márta Grabócz ; An interpretation of expressive meaning in the first movement of Schubert's String quartet in A minor, D. 804 / Robert S. Hatten ; Conceptualizing MIDI / Kai Lassfolk ; The absent meaning of music / Raymond Monelle ; Gesture and meaning in the musical languages of India / Lewis Rowell ; Parsifal as the undoing of Kundry / Anne Sivouja-Gunaratnam ; The immanence of performance in medieval song / Leo Treitler; title: Semiotics of culture. SemioSynaesthesiArts / Stefania Guerra Lisi and Gino Stefani ; Silence, language, and experience / Pirjo Kukkonen ; Does Imatra represent all of Finland? / Pekka Pesonen ; In the footsteps of Matias Alexander Castrén / H. K. Riikonen ; Identity of cultural texts and Creolization of cultural languages / Peeter Torop ; Icons of the mind (1614) / Vilmos Voigt; title: Semiotic theory and philosophy. A sociosemiotic model of the standards for discursive validation / Kristian Bankov ; Quelques titres de problèmes en sémiotique existentielle / Anne Hénault ; Une étrange absence : Jean-Jacques Nattiez face à la sémiotique d'Eero Tarasti / Jean-Marie Jacono ; The surplus value of the mythic in iconography, and in style / Altti Kuusamo ; Façons de faire / Eric Landowski ; The ethic imperative in Eero Tarasti's semiotic path / Dario Martinelli ; Semiotics and philosophy : comments on John Deely / Ilkka Niiniluoto ; Existential semiotics as the basis of general semiotics and special semiotics / Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio ; The transcendental method in metaphysics / Sami Pihlström.