Semiotics Bibliography
(Megan Henley, Michelle Keddy, Benjamin Kinsman, Michelle Muggridge, Karen Shields)
- Agawu, K. "Linguistics and Semiotics in Music (Review)", Music and Letters, LXXV/1, 1994.
- Barthes, Roland. The Responsibility of Forms. Translated by Richard Howard. New York: Hill and Wang, 1985.
- Bayar, Tildy Anne. “Culture from Music: Three Semiotic Readings”, Mills College Theses, 1998.
- Coker, Wilson. Music & Meaning. New York: The Free Press, 1972.
- Cook, N. "A Theory of Musical Semiotics (Review)", Music Theory Spectrum, XVIII/1, (Spring) 1996.
- Coroniti, J. Poetry as Text in 20th Century Vocal Music: from Stravinsky to Reich. Mellen Press, 1992.
- Dunsby, Jonathan. “Editorial: A Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to Semiotic Music Analysis”, Music Analysis, I/3 (October) 1982.
- Gruhn, Wilfried. Semiotics and Hermeneutics. Tübingen: Narr, 1994.
- Halliwell, Patrick. “The ‘Rokudan Cadence’ in Japanese Koto music: A Semiotic Approach to Interpretation”, Music Analysis, XIII/1, (Mar) 1994.
- Hatten, R. "Linguistics and Semiotics in Music (Review)", Quarterly Journal of the Music, L/3 (March) 1994.
- Hatten, Robert. “Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation”, Advances in Semiotics, Indiana: 1994.
- Hatten, Robert. “Semiotic Perspectives on Issues in Music Cognition”, In Theory Only, XI/3, (July) 1989.
- Krims, Adam Paul. “Some Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Models for Music”, Ph.D. diss. Harvard University, 1997.
- Mauk, Frederick Henry. “Aspiring to the Condition of Language: An Examination of Aesthetic Considerations in the Application of Structural (Semiological) Principles to Musical Problems”, Ph.D. diss. Harvard University, 1982.
- Monelle, R. “Linguistics and Semiotics in Music”, Contemporary Music Studies, V, Harwood Academic, 1992.
- Nöth, Winfried. Handbook of Semiotics. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990.
- Polednak, Ivan. “Musical Semiotics: A Report from Prague” In Theory Only, XI/6, (September) 1990.
- Rahn J. "From Similarity to Distance: from Simplicity to Complexity: from Pitches to Intervals: from Description to Causal Explanation", Music Theory Online, IX (July) 1994.
- Rahn, J. (ed) Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics. New York: Norton, 1994.
- Rahn, J. Basic Atonal Theory. New York, Longman, 1980.
- Rantala, V., L. Rowell, & E. Tarasti (eds.). Essays on the Philosophy of Music. Helsinki: Akateeminen Kirkjakauppa, 1988.
- Samuels, R. Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis : Lacan's Reconstruction of Freud. New York: Routledge, 1993.
- Samuels, R. Mahler's 6th Symphony: A Study in Musical Semiotics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1995.
- Shelton, Teresa Lorraine. Idiosyncrasies of Music Narrative: Hypotheses for Further Investigation. 1997.
- Shepherd, J. Music as Social Text. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991.
- Signs in Musical Hermeneutics. Pensacola, Fla.: Semiotic Society of America, 1998.
- “Signs & Time: an International Conference on the Semiotics of Time in Tübingen = Zeit & Zeichen”, Kodikas/Code Supplement, XXIV, G. Narr, 1998.
- Smith, Christopher. “A Sense of the Possible: Miles Davis and the Semiotics of Improvised Performance”, Drama Review, XXXIX/3 (fall) 1995.
- Stopford, J. "Structuralism, Semiotics and Musicology", British Journal of Aesthetics, (Spring) 1984.
- Swain, J. "The range of musical semantics", The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, LIV, 1996.
- Tarastic, E. “Beethoven’s ‘Waldstein’ and the Generative Course.” Indiana Theory Review, XII/spring-fall, 1991.
- Tarasti, E. "Music Models through Ages: A Semiotic Interpretation", International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, XXV/1-2, 1994.
- Tarasti, E. (ed). Musical Signification : Essays in the Semiotic Theory and Analysis of Music. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter 1995.
- Tarasti, E. A Theory of Musical Semiotics. Indiana University Press,
1994.
- Tarasti, E. Myth and Music: a Semiotic Approach to the Aesthetics of Myth in Music, especially that of Wagner, Sibelius and Stravinsky. The Hague: Mouton, 1979.
- Treitler, L. "The Beginnings of Music Writing in the West: Historical and Semiotic Aspects", Language and Communication, IX/2-3.
- Wolff, J. "Death and the maiden: Does semiotics justify murder?", Critical Quarterly, XXXV/2, (summer) 1993.