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'''Eero Aarne Pekka Tarasti''' (born September 27, 1948 in [[Helsinki]]), is a [[Finns|Finnish]] [[musicology|musicologist]] and [[semiotics| |
'''Eero Aarne Pekka Tarasti''' (born September 27, 1948 in [[Helsinki]]), is a [[Finns|Finnish]] [[musicology|musicologist]] and [[semiotics|semiologist]], currently serving as Professor of Musicology at the [[University of Helsinki]]. |
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He received his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] degree at the University of Helsinki in 1978, writing his [[dissertation]] ''Myth and Music'' on [[Richard Wagner]], [[Jean Sibelius]], and [[Igor Stravinsky]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hs.fi/kirjat/artikkeli/Sibeliusta++analyyttisesti/HS20011223SI1KU04kpl|title=Sibeliusta analyyttisesti|date=23 December 2001|work=[[Helsingin Sanomat]]|language=[[Finnish language|Finnish]]|accessdate=13 February 2011}}</ref> 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 is the President of the [[International Association for Semiotic Studies]] (2004–current). |
He received his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] degree at the University of Helsinki in 1978, writing his [[dissertation]] ''Myth and Music'' on [[Richard Wagner]], [[Jean Sibelius]], and [[Igor Stravinsky]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hs.fi/kirjat/artikkeli/Sibeliusta++analyyttisesti/HS20011223SI1KU04kpl|title=Sibeliusta analyyttisesti|date=23 December 2001|work=[[Helsingin Sanomat]]|language=[[Finnish language|Finnish]]|accessdate=13 February 2011}}</ref> 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 is the President of the [[International Association for Semiotic Studies]] (2004–current). |
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Eero Aarne Pekka Tarasti (born September 27, 1948 in Helsinki), is a Finnish musicologist and semiologist, currently serving as Professor 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.[1] 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 is the President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (2004–current).
Books
- Myth and Music. A Semiotic Approach to the Aesthetics of Myth in Music, especially that of Wagner, Sibelius and Stravinsky (1978)
- Semiotics of Music (ed.) (1987)
- Heroes of Music (1988)
- La musique comme langage I–II (ed.) (1987–88)
- Center and Periphery (ed.) (1990)
- Introduction to Semiotics (1990)
- Sémiologie et pratiques esthetiques (ed.) (1991)
- Semiotics of Finland (ed.) (1991)
- On the Borderlines of Semiosis (ed.) (1992)
- The Dream and Exaltation of Romanticism (1992)
- A Theory of Musical Semiotics (1994)
- Musical Signification (ed.) (1995)
- Examples (1996)
- Heitor Villa-Lobos (1996)
- La sémiotique musicale (1996)
- Musical Semiotics in Growth (ed.) (1996)
- Semiotics of Music (ed.)
- Musical Signification: Between Rhetoric and Pragmatics (ed.) (1998)
- Snow, Forest, Silence. The Finnish Tradition of Semiotics (ed.) (1998)
- The Correspondence (of the School Years and Years of Formation) between E.T. and Hannu Riikonen 1961-76 (1998)
- Existential Semiotics (2000)
- Le secret du professeur Amfortas (2000)
- Signs of Music (2002)
- The Realities of Music. An Encyclopedia (2003)
- Values and Signs (2004)
References
- ^ "Sibeliusta analyyttisesti". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 23 December 2001. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
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