Showcases the energy and diversity of the young field of music semiology, appealing to readers who want to explore the meaning of music in our lives.

Jonathan Dunsby, Jonathan Goldman

Foreword: About Jean-Jacques Nattiez - Pierre Boulez
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Jonathan Dunsby and Jonathan Goldman
Music and Gesture - Jean Molino
Music Semiology in the Mind of the Musician - Jonathan Dunsby
Against Ethnotheory - Kofi Agawu
From Georgian to Medieval Polyphonies: Analysis and Modeling - Simha Arom
Schenker's Inhalt, Schenkerian Semiotics: A Preliminary Study - Nicolas Meeùs
Music under the Sign of Modernism: From Wagner to Boulez, and Britten - Arnold Whittall
Musical Borrowings in the Works of Bruno Maderna - Rossana Dalmonte
Of Doubles, Groups, and Rhymes: A Seriation of Works for Spatialized Orchestral Groups (1958-60) - Jonathan Goldman
The Psychological Organization of Music Listening: From Spontaneous to Learned Perceptive Processes - Irène Deliège
Selected Bibliography of Works by Jean-Jacques Nattiez
List of Contributors
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria