M&M Title

Team Assignments

Danesi, Chapter 2: "An Outline of Semiotic Theory"
 
Team 2 Background and General Notions:
What kinds of signs do we apply to music?
How might each of the philosophers described in Danesi apply sign to music?
Team 3 Signifying Orders:
What are Barthes' ideas about semiotic theory?
What are critical and functional analysis?
How might they apply to music?
Team 1 Codes and Texts:
What are "codes" and how might Jakobson's ideas about "text" be applied to how we understand music?
All What is "metaphor" and how has music applied this idea?
 
18 February, 2013