Semiotic Description of Timbre and Usage-Related Variants: An Exploratory Analysis of Orchestration Handbooks

This article aims to discuss the role of timbre (tone colour) within the theoretical framework of French Semiotics (Greimas & Cortés, 1979) as well as the Brazilian Semiotics of Song, namely the main theoretic core built up by Tatit (1986, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2007) and its most recent developm...

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Main Author: Lucas Takeo Shimoda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de liège 2015-12-01
Series:Signata
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/signata/1060