The Semiotic Elements in Music and Language in "Song of the Lark: March" by Tchaikovsky - Andrea Fung - Bog

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: Semiotics has proven to be an effective way to describe and analyse music. It can also be used as a basis for comparing the language and music of a certain culture. From a cultural or cognitive point of view, the purpose of music and language research is to find out some form of their external structure. Using the method of semiotics allows us to understand the structure of music and language on the basis of the structure, as well as how they relate to their cultural environment and their cognitive and neural basis.