Piano Performance in a Semiotic Key Acta Semiotica Fennica Approaches to Musical Semiotics Editor Eero Tarasti Associate Editors Paul Forsell Richard Littlefield Editorial Board (ASF) Pertti Ahonen Henri Broms † Jacques Fontanille André Helbo Altti Kuusamo Ilkka Niiniluoto Pekka Pesonen Hannu Riikonen Kari Salosaari Vilmos Voigt Editorial Board (AMS) Márta Grabócz Robert S. Hatten Jean-Marie Jacono Costin Miereanu Gino Stefani Ivanka Stoianova Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies Faculty of Arts University of Helsinki PIANO PERFORMANCE in a Semiotic Key Society, musical canon and novel Discourses Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli Academic dissertation to be publicly discussed, by due permission of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki, in auditorium XII, University main building, on 14 November 2014 at 12 o’clock Helsinki 2014 This book is a publication of The Semiotic Society of Finland E-mail orders:
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[email protected] Reviewed by Prof. Dr. Jean-Marie Jacono Prof. Habil. Dr. Leonidas Melnikas Cover photo by the author Cover design by Dario Martinelli Layout by Rima Bukaveckienė © Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli 2014 ISBN 978-952-68257-0-0 (paperback) ISBN 978-952-68257-1-7 (PDF) ISSN: 1235-497X Acta Semiotica Fennica XLV ISSN: 1458-4921 Approaches to Musical Semiotics 18 Printed by “BMK Leidykla”, Vilnius 2014 PIANO PERFORMANCE in a Semiotic Key Society, musical canon and novel Discourses Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli Acta Semiotica Fennica XLV Approaches to Musical Semiotics 18 Semiotic Society of Finland Helsinki 2014 To Dario Abstract In an attempt to expand and enrich the existing trends of musical performance studies, as well as exploit the potentials of semiotic analysis, this dissertation offers the theoretical perspective that would enable us analyzing and unfolding the multiple (musical, cultural, as well as social) meanings generated by and communicated through the performer’s art.