Systems of Musical Sense
Essays on the Analysis, Semiotics, and Hermeneutics of Music
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Fulvio Delli Pizzi
Introductory remarks about musical systems and analysis
1. Semiotics and analytical models
Michele Ignelzi and Paolo Rosato
Signification in music: Between structure and process. A new role for paradigmatic analysis
Michele Ignelzi and Paolo Rosato
Semiotic processes in music: Systemics and modelization in paradigmatic analysis
- Processes in the musical fact: The neutral level with respect to studies on musical signification
- Processes in the musical object: Systemics and paradigmatic analysis
- Text and context in musical interpretation: A hermeneutic approach
Michele Ignelzi and Paolo Rosato
Modeling analysis and signification in music
Michele Ignelzi
Paradigmatic analysis and musical processes
Paolo Rosato
From paradigms to musical interpretation: An analysis of the Cavatina from Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 130
2. Homeostasis and heterostasis in Western music
Paolo Rosato
Linear and harmonic processes in Renaissance polyphony: Repetition and homeostasis in a work by Palestrina
Michele Ignelzi
Autonomy and interaction of systems in tonal music
Fulvio Delli Pizzi
Towards heterostatic systems. Twentieth-century music
Paolo Rosato
"Melos" narrativity in Anton Webern
Michele Ignelzi
Still in C major: A reading of Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet Op. 49, first movement
Fulvio Delli Pizzi
Functions and sense in "ad hoc" systems
Fulvio Delli Pizzi and Michele Ignelzi
Homeostatic and heterostatic systems in music
Fulvio Delli Pizzi, Michele Ignelzi and Paolo Rosato
Some reflections on behavioral constants in Western musical objects: An epochal view of universals in music
3. Rhetoric without a rhetor
Fulvio Delli Pizzi
Musical rhetoric is not a will-o'-the-wisp
Michele Ignelzi
Homeostasis as negative
Paolo Rosato
Rhetorical "intentio operis" in Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 2, No. 2
4. Musica mentalis
Fulvio Delli Pizzi, Michele Ignelzi and Paolo Rosato
Musica mentalis: The mind of music
Michele Ignelzi and Paolo Rosato
A dynamic approach to the study of the "neutral level" and its perceptional correlates
5. From paradigm to sign: Textuality and hermeneutics in a reading of Tristan und Isolde
Michele Ignelzi
Two places in Tristan und Isolde. Opposition and correspondence from a textual point of view
Michele Ignelzi and Paolo Rosato
Structural and semantic relationships. In search of a semic nucleus of Tristan
Paolo Rosato
Studying opera: A hermeneutic approach
References
Sources
Index of names and musical works
Index of terms