Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Theoretical approaches -- Method and system -- Toward a reinterpretation of compositional theory -- Music and antimetaphor -- The sign and music: A reflection on the theoretical bases of musical semiotics -- How philosophical characterizations of a musical work lose sight of the "music" and how it might be put back -- Interpretation and meaning in music -- Music and semantics -- The application of Hjelmslev's glossematics to music -- The musical work as sign: Significative constituents, layers, structure -- Asaf'ev and Tynianov: On some analogies between musicology and the study of literature -- Intonation as a specific form of musical semiosis -- Musical intonation - language of intuition and logic: A contribution to the system of the semiotics of intonation in music -- Empirical studies -- "The voice of the heart": A progressive semiosis on the interval of the sixth -- Pertinence in music -- Meaning and behavior patterns: The creation of meaning in interpreting and listening to music -- On the genesis of the musical sign -- Art evolution in the light of brain asymmetry: A trial of empirical investigation -- A semio-psychological theory of communication in music -- Character and characterization in musical performance: Effects of sensory experience upon meaning -- Tempo deviations and musical signification: A case study -- The pitch of glide-like F0 curves in Votic folksongs -- The concept of hierarchy: A theoretical approach -- Musical pragmatics and computer modelling -- Some relationships between terminology, analytic strategies, and computational methodologies -- Semiotic bases and computer assisted composition: Towards a cognitive model -- Experiments on grammar-based analysis of music -- Analyses of musical styles and texts -- Metaphor in music -- Performative musical acts: The Verdian achievement -- Peirce's "ground" and 19th-century Lieder -- The couples who remain: With reference to "Ici-bas" by Sully Prudhomme and Fauré -- "Apres un rêve": A semiotic analysis of the song by Gabriel Fauré -- The problem of narrativity in the symphonic poem En saga by Jean Sibelius -- Orchestration and form in Leos Janáček's Concertino: An analysis of intratextural interaction -- "Music becomes language": Narrative strategies in El cimarrón by Hans-Werner Henze -- Narrativity and electroacoustic music -- On the sound dimension of prehistoric painted caves and rocks -- The mythical in non-programmatic music -- The symbol of the tree in musical Jugendstil -- Aspects of the "Dance of Death" as a semiotic system -- Authors -- Index