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

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

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

Musical semiotics is a new discipline and paradigm of both semiotics and musicology. In its tradition, the current volume constitutes a radically new solution t