The Musical Turn in Biosemiotics

Abstract Human music and language are two systems of communication expression that, while historically considered to overlap, have become increasingly divergent in their approach study. Music almost certainly co-evolved emerged from the same semiotic field, this relationship as well co-origin actively researched debated. For sake evaluating content zoomusicology, we investigate a ‘bottom-up’ biosemiotic functionalist account considering iconic, indexical, symbolic forms meaning not hierarchy but according effects on agents. Such an avoids overintellectualizing representational aspects music, instead inverts, it were, traditional categories produce illocutionary effects. Understanding aesthetics action priori separate rather fundamentally co-arising elements events. The focus musicality again returns interpretation how semiosis precipitates expression.