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PhD Musicology University of Helsinki

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According to Wikipedia, Eero Aarne Pekka Tarasti , is a Finnish musicologist and semiologist, currently serving as Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of Helsinki. He received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Helsinki in 1978, writing his dissertation Myth and Music on Richard Wagner, Jean Sibelius, and Igor Stravinsky. Then, Tarasti served at the University of Jyväskylä between 1979–1984, where he was appointed Professor of Arts Education in 1979 and Professor of Musicology in 1983. In 1984 he took the position of Professor of Musicology in Helsinki, succeeding Erik Tawaststjerna. Tarasti has held posts as Director or President in several semiotic and musical societies and since the 1970s has written and edited numerous books encompassing a semiotic approach to music. He has been the President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies , and the Director of the International Semiotics Institute.

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A theory of musical semiotics (1994) (143)
Signs of Music: A Guide To Musical Semiotics (2002) (73)
Musical signification : essays in the semiotic theory and analysis of music (1995) (42)
Myth and music : a semiotic approach to the aesthetics of myth in music, especially that of Wagner, Sibelius and Stravinsky (1979) (38)
Heitor Villa-Lobos: The Life and Works, 1887-1959 (1995) (25)
"Myth and Music. A Semiotic Approach to the Aesthetics of Myth in Music, especially that of Wagner, Sibelius and Stravinsky by...", Eero Tarasti, The Hague 1979 : [recenzja] / Maria Gołaszewska. (1981) (25)
Semiotics of Classical Music: How Mozart, Brahms and Wagner Talk to Us (2012) (22)
Essays on the philosophy of music (1988) (22)
Musical semiotics in growth (1996) (14)
Existential Semiotics and Cultural Psychology (2012) (14)
Sein und Schein: Explorations in Existential Semiotics (2015) (13)
Ideologies manifesting axiologies (2004) (8)
Metaphors, semiotics and futures studies (2016) (7)
Myth and Music: A Semiotic Approach to the Aesthetics of Myth in Music, Especially That of Wagner, Sibelius and Stravinsky@@@The Sign in Music and Literature (1984) (7)
Beethoven's Waldstein and the Generative Course (1991) (6)
The Emancipation of the Sign: On the Corporeal and Gestural Meanings in Music (2005) (6)
What Is Existential Semiotics? From Theory to Application (2009) (6)
EXISTENTIAL AND TRANSCENDENTAL ANALYSIS OF MUSIC (2006) (6)
Snow, forest, silence : the Finnish tradition of semiotics (1999) (6)
Musical Semiotics Revisited (2003) (5)
Los signos en la historia de la música,historia de la semiótica musical (2008) (4)
An Essay on Appearance: Or: The present structure and existential digressions of the subject (2007) (4)
Music Models Through Ages: A Semiotic Interpretation (1986) (4)
Chapter 5. The emancipation of the sign: On corporeal and gestural meanings in music (2002) (4)
Narrativity and electroacoustic music (1995) (3)
The semiosis of light in music: From synaesthesias to narratives (2001) (3)
Basic Concepts of Studies in Musical Signification: A Report on a New International Research Project in Semiotics of Music (1987) (3)
The semiotics of A. J. Greimas: A European intellectual heritage seen from the inside and the outside (2017) (3)
Performative musical acts: The Verdian achievement (1995) (2)
Finno-Ugric semiotics: Cultores and metacultores (2000) (2)
Tempo deviations and musical signification: A case study (1995) (2)
How philosophical characterizations of a musical work lose sight of the “music” and how it might be put back (1995) (2)
Victoria Lady Welby – A pioneer of semiotic thought rediscovered by Susan Petrilli (2013) (2)
Humanities: State and prospects (2008) (2)
A narrative grammar of Chopin's G minor Ballade (1992) (2)
Musical Signification, Between Rhetoric and Pragmatics Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Musical Signification = la Significazione Musicale, Tra Retorica E Pragmatica (1998) (2)
Semiotics of resistance: Being, memory, history — the counter-current of signs (2009) (2)
Semiótica de la resistencia: El ser, la memoria y la historia. La contracorriente de los signos (2006) (1)
In the Search for Aesthetic Experience (2010) (1)
Orchestration and form in Leos Janáček’s Concertino: An analysis of intratextural interaction (1995) (1)
Chapter 2. On the appearance or the present structure and existential digressions of the subject (2015) (1)
Music as Sign and Process (1986) (1)
Character and characterization in musical performance: Effects of sensory experience upon meaning (1995) (1)
Finno-Ugric semiotics (2000) (1)
La comprensión, la incomprensióny la autocomprensión (2002) (1)
Chapter 8. On the semiosis of musical improvisation: From Mastersingers to Bororo indians (2002) (1)
The symbol of the tree in musical Jugendstil (1995) (1)
Chapter 17: Thomas A. Sebeok, A portrait of a Finnougrian semiotician (2011) (1)
Metaphors of nature and organicism in the epistemology of music (2001) (1)
Can Semiotics be Organized? Observations over a 40-year Period (2012) (1)
Musical intonation – language of intuition and logic: A contribution to the system of the semiotics of intonation in music (1995) (1)
On post-colonial semiotics (1998) (1)
Semiotics in Finland (1986) (1)
Towards a Structural Semantics of Music: Reflections on the Logic of Musical Discourse (1984) (1)
Heitor Villa- Lobos and the Problem of National Neoclassicism (1990) (1)
Asaf’ev and Tynianov: On some analogies between musicology and the study of literature (1995) (1)
The problem of narrativity in the symphonic poem En saga by Jean Sibelius (1995) (1)
The pitch of glide-like F0 curves in Votic folksongs (1995) (1)
“Apres un rêve”: A semiotic analysis of the song by Gabriel Fauré (1995) (1)
Can Peirce be Applied to Music (1994) (0)
Existential semiotic analysis o f the tem poral and subjective dimensions o f a rt music perform ance (2018) (0)
Chapter 1. Is music sign (2002) (0)
Chapter 10. Culture and transcendence (2015) (0)
Chapter 1. Existential semiotics today: Sein (Being) and Schein (Appearing) (2015) (0)
The application of Hjelmslev’s glossematics to music (1995) (0)
Toward a reinterpretation of compositional theory (1995) (0)
Pertinence in music (1995) (0)
Chapter 21. The right of unfunctionality – Explorations in Ponzio’s philosophical semiotics (2015) (0)
"Arnold Schoenberg's Harmonielehre in the Light of Musical Semiotics" (1982) (0)
Index of persons and musical works (2012) (0)
Musical Semiotics – a Discipline, its History and Theories, Past and Present1 (2018) (0)
Chapter 4. Metaphors of nature and organicism in music: A “biosemiotic” approach (2002) (0)
Chapter 6. Body and transcendence in Chopin (2002) (0)
6. The mythical as seme and style in music (1979) (0)
Chapter 4. The concept of genre: In general and in music (2015) (0)
Chapter 13.A. Metaphors of nature and organicism (2015) (0)
Chapter 19. Music – Superior Communication (2012) (0)
Chapter 2. Signs in music history, history of music semiotics (2002) (0)
2. The problematics of myth (1979) (0)
Chapter 17. The stylistic development of a composer as a cognition of the musicologist: Bohuslav Martinů (2012) (0)
Signs in the History of Music: History of Musical Semiotics (2008) (0)
4. Myth as a musical reconstruction (1979) (0)
An Essay on Rhythm (2022) (0)
Some preludizing thoughts (2010) (0)
Closing Words at the Nanjing Congress on Semiotics (2009) (0)
We're glad it's all over: binge drinking cultures (2007) (0)
Semiotics as Transcultural Metalanguage (2014) (0)
The implicit musical semiotics of Marcel Proust (1997) (0)
Culture and transcendence (2014) (0)
Chapter 16. An essay on Russian music (2012) (0)
Chapter 19. Wilhelm Sesemann in the context of semiotics (2015) (0)
Chapter 9. Semiotics of resistance: Being, memory, history, and the counter-current of signs (2015) (0)
Abstract Book Anticipation and Change (2019) (0)
Chapter 15. From absolute spirit to the community of interpretation: Josiah Royce (1855–1916), the American classic between Hegel and Peirce (2015) (0)
Metaphors, semiotics, and future studies (2016) (0)
Music: between style and meaning (2005) (0)
Chapter 13. The implicit musical semiotics of Marcel Proust (2012) (0)
Some relationships between terminology, analytic strategies, and computational methodologies (1995) (0)
Existential Semiotics and Its Application to Music: The Zemic Theory and Its Birth from the Spirit of Music (2021) (0)
Chapter 2. Mozart, or, the Idea of a Continuous Avant-garde (2012) (0)
On the genesis of the musical sign (1995) (0)
Chapter 7. Brahms and the “Lyric I”: A Hermeneutic Sign Analysis (2012) (0)
Chapter 16. Victoria Lady Welby – A pioneer of semiotic thought rediscovered by Susan Petrilli (2015) (0)
Du Flâneur au traceur: playful bodies in urban spaces (2022) (0)
Sobre las estructuras elementales del discurso musical (1994) (0)
Es la música un signo (2004) (0)
Chapter 15. Čiurlionis, Sibelius and Nietzsche: Three profiles and interpretations (2012) (0)
Book review: Lyndon C.S. Way & Simon McKerrell (eds) 2017. Music as Multimodal Discourse: Semiotics, Power and Protest (2017) (0)
The semiotic forces in Chopin’s music (2019) (0)
Chapter 1. Introduction to a Philosophy of Music (2012) (0)
Chapter 6. Signs around Us – Umwelt, Semiosphere and Signscape (2015) (0)
Chapter 18. Russian formalism in the global semiotics – Precursor of the European branch (2015) (0)
Chapter 12. On culinemes, gastrophemes, and other signs of cooking (2015) (0)
Chapter 9. Do Wagner’s leitmotifs have a system? (2012) (0)
Signs and transcendence (1999) (0)
Findings of the survey of cultural valuesof youngs in Kyzylorda region (2019) (0)
Peirce and Greimas from the Viewpoint of Musical Semiotics: An Outline for a Comparative Semiotics (1982) (0)
Chapter 3. Representation in Semiotics (2015) (0)
Umberto Eco’s Semiotics Umberto Eco’s Semiotics : Theory, Methodology and Poetics an T HE NARRATIVE PROCESS AS E CO ’ S THEORETICAL CHALLENGE (0)
7. Introduction: the mythical in Liszt and Slavonic music (1979) (0)
Semiotics in the North–the Tartu School Continued in Finland (1988) (0)
Portrait of a European scholar: Eero Tarasti interviewed by Lina Navickaite (2008) (0)
“The voice of the heart”: A progressive semiosis on the interval of the sixth (1995) (0)
Chapter 17. Vladimir Solovyov (2015) (0)
The Panorama of Musical Semiotics and One New Theory to Elaborate it Further. The Paradigm of Existential Theory in Music (2020) (0)
The couples who remain: With reference to “Ici-bas” by Sully Prudhomme and Fauré (1995) (0)
Chapter 18. Do Semantic Aspects of Music Have a Notation (2012) (0)
From Ursatz to Urzemic (2020) (0)
Peirce’s “ground” and 19th-century Lieder (1995) (0)
Presidential address: opening of the 9th World Congress of Semiotics (Solemnity Hall, University of Helsinki) (2009) (0)
Vladimir Soloviev: Pre- or anti-semiotician? (2000) (0)
Chapter 22. São Paulo, Helsinki, New Delhi – The life of José Luiz Martinez (2015) (0)
Aspects of the “Dance of Death” as a semiotic system (1995) (0)
Cultural values: a concept and research methods (2019) (0)
3. From the aesthetics of myth to the aesthetics of music (1979) (0)
Chapter 11. A proposal for a semiotic theory of performing arts (2015) (0)
The mythical in non-programmatic music (1995) (0)
Chapter 10. Proust and Wagner (2012) (0)
Chapter 11. Rhetoric and Musical Discourse (2012) (0)
Chapter 12. The semiosis of light in music: from synaesthesias to narratives (2012) (0)
Method and system (1995) (0)
Chapter 5. The world and its interpretation (2015) (0)
Chapter 7. Voice and identity (2002) (0)
Chapter 5. The irony of romanticism (2012) (0)
Chapter 23. Can Semiotics be organized? Observations over a 40-year period (2015) (0)
“Music becomes language”: Narrative strategies in El cimarrón by Hans-Werner Henze (1995) (0)
Chapter 8. Brünnhilde’s Choice; or, a Journey into Wagnerian Semiosis: Intuitions and Hypotheses (2012) (0)
Culture and transcendence – the concept of transcendence through the ages (2017) (0)
Chapter 3. Existential and Transcendental Analysis of Music (2012) (0)
Chapter 8. Ideologies manifesting axiologies (2015) (0)
5. The mythical and musical discourses (the narrative aspect) (1979) (0)
Art evolution in the light of brain asymmetry: A trial of empirical investigation (1995) (0)
Semiotic bases and computer assisted composition: Towards a cognitive model (1995) (0)
Index of referred musical works (1979) (0)
Greeting of the President of the IASS at the Nanjing International Symposium on Cultural Semiotics and the 8th Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Linguistic Semiotics (2009) (0)
Semio crisis in the era of globalisation towards a new theory of collective and individual subjectivity (2007) (0)
Chapter 14. Finland in the eyes of a semiotician (2015) (0)
Robert Samuels, Mahler's Sixth Symphony: A Study in Musical Semiotics. Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995 xv + 175 pp. ISBS 0 921 48166 X. (1998) (0)
Chapter 14. M. K. Čiurlionis and the interrelationships of arts (2012) (0)
Mahler's Sixth Symphony: A Study in Musical Semiotics (2010) (0)
Daniel Charles or the Principle of Non-will (2010) (0)
Music and antimetaphor (1995) (0)
Chapter 20. Roland Barthes or the birth of semiotics from the spirit of music (2015) (0)
Chapter 3. Signs as acts and events: On musical situations (2002) (0)
Chapter 4. Listening to Beethoven: Universal or National, Classic or Romantic? (2012) (0)

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