Rito, ripetizione, riferimento
Per una semiotica della soglia del senso
Abstract
A condition for constructing a semiotics of music is that of being able to do without the notions of reference and representation, evidently crucial notions, however, for a semiotics of language. In these pages we discuss how music works right on the threshold of meaning, a pre-representational threshold, in which the dimension of repetition is fundamental, as a way of building expectations (according to a perspective that has its origins in the thought of Leonard Meyer) which are then managed in various ways to create aesthetic-emotional effects. Understanding music, in this perspective, seems to go more in the direction of doing than in that of conceiving, bringing music closer to rite, understood as a pre-representational collective action.
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