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Informationen zum Autor Naomi Cumming was a fine violinist and music theorist. She published a host of journal articles and lectured internationally on the philosophy, psychology, and semiotics of music; her article on musical semiotics will appear in the Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. She was a Fulbright fellow at Columbia University, a research fellow in music theory at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Melbourne, and recipient of an award from the Society for Music Theory in 1998. Klappentext A richly interdisciplinary approach to a very common, yet persistently mysterious, part of our lives. Zusammenfassung A fresh contemplation of subjectivity and musical meaning. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preliminary Table of Contents: Introduction Musical Initiations Subjects and Subjectivity A Philosophical Outlook 1. Signs of Subjectivity Physical Disciplines and Signs A Semiotic View of Musical Subjectivity Expressive Individuation and Uncertainty 2. Listening Subjects and Semiotic Worlds The Uncertainties of Musical Signification Interntionality and Metaphor Subjects and First-person Authority Regaining an Interpretive "I" 3. Musical Signs Signs and Objects Questions and Typologies 4. Naming Qualities; Hearing Signs Qualities and Qualities-as-Signs Disciplinary Boundaries: How Does Semiotics Relate to Psychology? 5. Gesturing Gesture as Performance and Convention To Perform or to Dissimulate? Voice and Gesture as Virtualities 6. Framing Willfulness in Tonal Law Theorists: Giving Roles to Rules The Dialectics of Tonal Semiosis 7. Complex Syntheses Expressive Complexity and Musical "Personae" Modes of Synthesis 8. Culturally Embedded Signs Emergent Qualities Skeptical Issues 9. Values and Personal Categories Sounds and Sensuality Encounters Rehabilitating the Subject Appendix: Theorizing Generals Real or Nominal Rules? Finding Constancies, Explaining What One Hears, or Seeking Enlightenment? ...
