SEMIOTICS OF FILM / SEMIOTICS OF FILM MUSIC

The Cognitive Semiotics of Film

Musicology and the semiotics of popular music

This text was originally published as an article in Semiotica 66-1/3 (1987), pp. 279-298. Copyright P Tagg (author, Liverpool) and Mouton de Gruyter (publishers, Amsterdam). This text is basically the same as that sent unedited to Mouton de Gruyter in 1986, except that bibliographical references have been corrected. Footnote numbers are not the same as in the Semiotica version. Starts of pages ...

Objects of desire - methodology for film analysis in the sense of peircean semiotics and intermedial studies

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Art. 154: Semiotic Aspects of Musicology: Semiotics of Music

1.1 Topography of Music 1.1.1 The Ontological Topography of Music The role of semiotic aspects in musicology is best described from the complex ontological topography of music. We start this article from the fundamental description [70], stating that “music is communication, has meaning and mediates on the physical level between its mental and psychic levels”. This fact suggests that three onto...

Instrument Semiotics

In this and the following companion paper, Tearing Interfaces Apart, we shall present a theoretical semiotic analysis of interfaces and demonstrate how this analysis can be coupled to an empirical analysis of a work domain and its changing needs for information. The work domain is maritime maneuvering and navigation. We do this by exploiting two senses of the concept “analysis”. “Analysis” mean...