| The Sense of Music: Semiotic Essays The fictional Dr. Strabismus sets out to write a new comprehensive theory of music. But music's tendency to deconstruct itself combined with the complexities of postmodernism doom him to failure. This is the parable that frames The Sense of Music, a novel treatment of music theory that reinterprets the modern history of Western music in the terms of semiotics. Raymond Monelle is Reader in Music at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Linguistics and Semiotics in Music and publishes widely as both a music theorist and a music critic. He has lectured and taught at universities throughout Europe, North America, and Israel. He was formerly a pianist, conductor, and composer. |