Music Semiotics: a Network of Significations: In Honour and Memory of Raymond Monelle

Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Music Examples -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword by Eero Tarasti -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. The Universe of Musical Meaning -- Chapter 2. The Sense of Music -- Chapter 3. How Did Music Rise to Philosophical Eminence? (And How Has it Been Deprived of it?) 25 -- Chapter 4. Between the Field and the Salon -- Chapter 5. The Significance of Musical Rules: A Summary of Selected Principles of Organization -- Chapter 6. Music in Bakhtin's Philosophical Aesthetics -- Part II. Texts: Narrativities and Intermodalities -- Chapter 7. Cycling Song: The Wilhelm Meister Collections -- Chapter 8. On Metaphor and Syntactic Troping in Music -- Chapter 9. Fanny Mendelssohn's Cantata Hiob: A Transpersonal Commentary on Divine Darkness -- Chapter 10. The 'Preludio' of the Four Orchestral Pieces Op. 12 by Béla Bartók: An Intertextual Analytical Approach -- Chapter 11. Semiotic Analysis and Computational Modelling: Two Case Studies on Works by Debussy and Xenakis -- Part III. Networks: Who Signals What (And How?) -- Chapter 12. Time, Subjectivity and Contested Signs: Developing Monelle's Application of Peirce's 1903 Typology to Music -- Chapter 13. Reflections on Musical Topics and Musical Character in Performance -- Chapter 14. Against Reproduction -- Chapter 15. Dramatic Signification of the Grail Knights' Choruses of Parsifal by Richard Wagner -- Chapter 16 Realism and Artifice: Innovation, Wagner's Ring, and Theatre Practice in the German Democratic Republic -- Part IV. The Musical Topic: Beyond Conventions -- Chapter 17. The Topic of Emotion -- Chapter 18. Parody of Learned Style -- Chapter 19. Ironic Inflections of Topics: Beethoven's Quartet Op. 127