A semiotic approach to music

Meeùs, Nicolas

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“…However, defining listening as a process is too narrow because it cannot be separated from the anatomical, physiological and psychosocial circumstances that impact it. A ''listening network'' was first coined in a study of complex music structures (Meeùs, 1993); however, we propose a more comprehensive concept of a listening network that, in the case of speech and language communication, is driven by functional access to auditory pathways (bottom-up processing) and cortical function (top-down processing), can also be considered to serve as a link between the two and adapts to environmental influences by repurposing, as needed (Amichetti et al, 2018). Peelle and Wingfield (2016) refer to an extended cortical network but the listening network considers all aspects involved in receiving, transmitting, and comprehending meaningful sound information, including a deafened adult's condition or use of a prosthesis, such as a CI, that potentially causes perceptual distortions.…”

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The Listening Network and Cochlear Implant Benefits in Hearing-Impaired Adults

James

Reinoso

Breuning

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Front. Aging Neurosci.

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Older adults with mild or no hearing loss make more errors and expend more effort listening to speech. Cochlear implants (CI) restore hearing to deaf patients but with limited fidelity. We hypothesized that patient-reported hearing and health-related quality of life in CI patients may similarly vary according to age. Speech Spatial Qualities (SSQ) of hearing scale and Health Utilities Index Mark III (HUI) questionnaires were administered to 543 unilaterally implanted adults across Europe, South Africa, and South America. Data were acquired before surgery and at 1, 2, and 3 years post-surgery. Data were analyzed using linear mixed models with visit, age group (18–34, 35–44, 45–54, 55–64, and 65+), and side of implant as main factors and adjusted for other covariates. Tinnitus and dizziness prevalence did not vary with age, but older groups had more preoperative hearing. Preoperatively and postoperatively, SSQ scores were significantly higher (Δ0.75–0.82) for those aged <45 compared with those 55+. However, gains in SSQ scores were equivalent across age groups, although postoperative SSQ scores were higher in right-ear implanted subjects. All age groups benefited equally in terms of HUI gain (0.18), with no decrease in scores with age. Overall, younger adults appeared to cope better with a degraded hearing before and after CI, leading to better subjective hearing performance.

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The Listening Network and Cochlear Implant Benefits in Hearing-Impaired Adults

James

Reinoso

Breuning

et al. 2021

Front. Aging Neurosci.

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“…(McDonald, 2011, p. 102) There is an extensive literature that takes semiotic approaches to music analysis, including Hooper (2012), Nattiez (1990), andTagg (2013;1987;. Meeùs (1993) details the differences in application between Peircean and Saussurean models of semiotics in the analysis of music. Two conceptual issues for both approaches are: the assumption of universals, or intrinsic meaning rather than socially constructed meaning; and the conflation of analytical position with both "production" and "consumption" perspectives seeming somehow seamless.…”

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“…Two conceptual issues for both approaches are: the assumption of universals, or intrinsic meaning rather than socially constructed meaning; and the conflation of analytical position with both "production" and "consumption" perspectives seeming somehow seamless. Such approaches often attempt to combine a perspective that addresses both creators and audiences or alternately do not specify a specific reference community at all (McDonald, 2011;Meeùs, 1993;Moore, 2012, pp. 8-9;van Leeuwen, 2012;Tagg, 2013).…”

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A cultural semantics of string arrangement for recorded Popular music: A model for analysis and practice

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This thesis contributes new knowledge about string arranging for recorded Popular music. Specifically it contributes a new model for understanding and writing string arrangements based on an aural analysis of 500 albums released between 1952 and 2011. I show that string arrangements for recorded Popular music can be categorised under one of seven distinct styles. Each style is given coherence and made meaningful by its relationship with social and cultural institutions. The thesis collects and structures the detail of each style at the level of metafunction (Lemke, 2009, pp. 283-297;1995a)

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Hacia un análisis de la obra de Richard Wagner a través de la lingüística computacional

Mejia¹

2019

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El presente artículo busca explorar la relación entre música y lingüística. Para ello, analiza una parte importante de la obra wagneriana, utilizando algunas herramientas de la lingüística computacional. Para este fin, se ha constituido un corpus de libretos con obras pertenecientes a Richard Wagner y se ha empleado una metodología basada en la lingüística de corpus. Nuestro objetivo es analizar los textos wagnerianos y encontrar la relación entre música y lingüística desde una perspectiva ligada a los Leitmotive del autor alemán, observando, de esta manera, el comportamiento de una obra lírica desde el punto de vista lingüístico.

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A semiotic approach to music

Cited by 4 publications

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The Listening Network and Cochlear Implant Benefits in Hearing-Impaired Adults

The Listening Network and Cochlear Implant Benefits in Hearing-Impaired Adults

A cultural semantics of string arrangement for recorded Popular music: A model for analysis and practice

Hacia un análisis de la obra de Richard Wagner a través de la lingüística computacional

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