What is "musical signification"? Who we are and how we got here / Eero Tarasti

Preface / Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli

I. Ex cathedra. The musical sublime / Raymond Monelle ; From word to music : emo-tono-phonosymbolism in the globality of languages / Gino Stefani, Stefania Guerra Lisi ; Three modes of narrativity : illustrated by Proust and Wagner / Eero Tarasti ; Das Musikwerk in der intertextuellen Perspektive : von der Inspiration bis zur Resonanz / Mieczysław Tomaszewski

II. Epistemologies, theories, paradigms. In search of filters for musical subjectivity / Aldo Barbieri ; Spectral semiotics : sound as enacted experience : a phenomenological approach to temporality in sound and music / Paulo C. Chagas ; Signs, dicisigns and the dimensions of time in music : towards a semiotic theory of musical subjectivity / Ben Curry ; Correla(c)tivity of liquid music-artistic intermediality / Julius Fujak ; The spectral paradigm / Antonio Lai ; Music's pre-existence as ideal sound / Otto Lehto ; Apollo could not live without Dionysus / Albert van der Schoot ; Before and after the emergence of musical thought-signs / Juha Ojala ; Psychological realism in Janáček's musical aesthetics and theoretical works / Tiina Vainiomäki

III. Semiotics of culture and society. Semiotics of the stone : concerning problems of Chinese lithophone investigations / Alla Ablova ; Life cycle of a musical work : the philosophical basis for music education / Louise L. Anderson ; Myth and music : siblings or lovers? A journey through the myth of Prometheus in European art music / Evdoxia Angelidou ; Contemporary expressions of Mexican identity : a semiotic-discursive approach to popular border songs / María Dolores Chávez García ; Factors involved in shaping the basic musical signs in the same culture and different cultures / Dalia Cohen ; Verbreitung von Diversen Kulturzeichen in der Litauischen Musik / Rūta Gaidamavičiūtė ; The possible after's and the impossible before's of musical semiotics : reflections on media, iPods, and (the trouble with) post-modernism / Dario Martinelli ; A syncretic approach to the analysis of international songs : discourse variations and structural invariants in the process of translation / Ricardo Nogueira de Castro Monteiro ; Music and food : cultural parallels of sign systems / Marina Ritzarev ; Interpréter et écouter la musique : un acte politique? / Kalliopi Stiga

IV. Multidisciplinary perspectives. Semiotic approaches to the representation of music / George Athanasopoulos ; Background landscapes in romantic music / Luis Ángel de Benito ; Concept of the theme in the musical and literary text : before and after the signifier / Rūta Brūzgienė ; Listening to the faun (again and again) / Paulo F. de Castro ; Estructuras de comunicación (categorías aplicadas de Tarasti) en un estudio de jazz mexicano intitulado : estudio semiótico transdisciplinario del jazz mexicano en su expresión musical y plástica : el caso de Francisco Téllez y Jazzamoart / María Dolores Chávez García ; La chanson : une approache sémiotique d'un objet sonore et musical / Martine Groccia ; Before opera in Bobrowski's Litauische clavier / W.G. Kudszus ; Beyond text and music : semantic interpretation of the Kinnor in Lithuanian translations of the Bible / Kamilė Rupeikaitė ; Contextual motivation and markedness : interpreting Liszt's Dante sonata as inspired by Victor Hugo's Après une lecture du Dante / Grace Yu

V. Philosophies of performance. From Marceneiro to Mariza : some remarks on fado performance / Leonidas Melnikas ; Signifying music and the self : interpretative decisions of a performer / Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli ; Why perform in silence? / Juha Torvinen ; Performing the rural : sonic signifiers in early-twentieth-century recordings of folk music arrangements for violin / Joshua Walden

VI. Opera and drama. Time proportions and key characterizations in Lucia di Lammermoor's "mad" scene / Luca Bruno ; Music before music : short operas and dance plays for children by Rasa Dikčienė / Inga Jankauskienė ; Mozart's ghost : fact and fiction in Così fan tutte / Raffaele Longo ; Before and after : musical signification in the middle ages liturgical drama Officium Stellae / Nausica Morandi ; The relationship between music and text and the concept of musical metaphor in French baroque opera / Ana Stevanovic

VII. Musical signification in cinema. Musical signification and the definition of cinematic "spaces" : Gus Van Sant's "Death triology" / Helder Gonc̜alves ; Contemporary changes in treating music and sound in films / Titas Petrikis ; Music before and after Emshwiller's Images : musical semiotics and George Dumpson's Place / Michael Saffle ; Dans le noir du temps : re-escuchando nuestra experiencia del cine / María Edurne Zuazu Bermejo

VIII. Twentieth-century compositional practices. Zwischen Romantik und Avantgarde : die Rolle des Fis-Dur Akkords in den letzen Takten des Prometheus von Alexander Skrjabin / Ádám Ignácz ; Musical contextualisations in the work of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki / Teresa Malecka ; Specific typology of "appropriated" musical signs in Serbian post-minimalist compositions / Marija Masnikosa ; Ethnic cleansing, anxious influence and secret codes : a semiotician's guide to Stravinsky's musicological afterlife and its archaeological contra-factum / Nicholas P. McKay ; In search of the meaning of musical time : before and after the music of Messiaen's Quatour pour la fin du temps / Tijana Popović Mladjenović ; A theory of angels in Rautavaara's instrumental music / Wojciech Stępień ; The impact of Sibelius on the style of Helvi Leiviskä, the Finnish symphonist / Eila Tarasti ; Alfred Schnittke's polystylism : the style as a sign / Jean-Benoît Tremblay ; Historical and cultural contextualization of musical signification in oeuvre by Onutė Narbutaitė / Audronė Žiūraitytė.