Dossier

1. Primitives

José Roberto do Carmo Jr. & Thiago Corrêa de Freitas, "Melodic Primitives and Semiosis";
Lucas Takeo Shimoda, "Semiotic Description of Timbre and Usage-Related Variants: An Exploratory Analysis of Orchestration Handbooks".

2. The Audible

Andrea Valle, “Towards a Semiotics of the Audible”;
Lucia Santaella, “Sound and Music in the Domain of Rhematic Iconic Qualisign”.

3. Music, Song, Language

Luiz Tatit & Ivã Carlos Lopes, « Ce que 'chanter' veut dire dans l'énonciation musicale » ;
Martine Groccia, « La chanson. Essai de sémiotique théorique appliquée » ;
Lawrence M. Zbikowski, “Words, Music, and Meaning”;
Colwyn Trevarthen, “Communicative Musicality or Stories of Truth and Beauty in the Sound of Moving”;
Bjorn Merker, “Seven theses on the Biology of Music and Language”.

4. Metaphor

Frederico Macedo, “Space as Metaphor: The Use of Spatial Metaphors in Music and Music Writing”;
Line Brandt, “Dance as Dialogue: Metaphorical Conceptualization and Semantic Domains”.

5. Tonality, Harmony, Philosophy

Per Aage Brandt, “On Tonal Dynamics and Musical Meaning”;
William L. Benzon, “'Rhythm Changes’. Notes on Some Genetic Elements in Musical Culture”;
John Halle, “From Linguistics to Musicology. Notes on Structuralism, Musical Generativism, Cognitive Science, and Philosophy”;
Peter Bruun, “Silence the Silence. Making Sense of Music beyond Consumption and Contemplation”.

6. Emotion, Body and Performance

David Huron, “Cues and Signals: An Ethological Approach to Music-Related Emotion”;
William Westney, et al., “Musical Embodiment and Perception: Performances, Avatars and Audiences”;
Morten Schuldt-Jensen, “What Is Conducting? Signs, Principles, and Problems”.

Varia

Alain Rabatel, « Le substrat énonciatif de la connaissance narrative empathique et ses enjeux philosophiques » ;
Pierluigi Basso Fossali, « Le rythme étranger et la catalyse ponctuelle de la culture. Dialogues possibles entre Barthes et Lotman ».