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