Abstract Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s (1981) approach to deconstructing Platonic dichotomies, this article argues that any notational system is inherently structuring and should be subjected deconstructive efforts. Further, my contention deconstruction can realized in how notation itself used, what I refer as ‘deconstructive notation’. This looks at has been used by composers deconstruct the ca...

Résumé ries which reject the very notion of ‘structural listening’, along with those of thematic integration, tonal development, and ‘the work’ as an object of duly perceptive and keen-eared formal analysis. I also make reference to recent ideas in cognitive psychology as a counter to the textualist bias of ‘deconstructive’ music theory which risks losing touch with whatever is most distinctive...

Discourse analysis is increasingly becoming a methodology of preference amongst qualitative researchers. There is a danger, however, of it being viewed as a bounded and uncontested domain of research practice. As discourse analysis is inextricably linked with theoretical issues, it is a dynamic practice that is constantly in a process of revision. In this paper I reflect on some of the conceptu...

The main concern of this paper is the design of a noetherian and con uent normalization for LK2 (that is, classical second order predicate logic presented as a sequent calculus). The method we present is powerful: since it allows us to recover as fragments formalisms as seemingly di erent as Girard's LC and Parigot's , FD ([9, 11, 27, 31]), delineates other viable systems as well, and gives mea...