Music Semiotics

The course aims at providing fundamental concepts in music theory and harmony (with specific reference to the tonal language), by analyzing musical communication in its main building compoents (rhythmic, melodic, harmonic), and it its implications in terms of perception, affect-emotion, and cognition.

At the end of the course, the student will have the knowledge and the understanding of the rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic structures of the tonal language, of its functions, and of its perceptual, affective, and cognitive implications. Moreover, the student will acquire the ability to evaluate critically the expressive phenomenology of the tonal language, and will internalize the main concepts so to make them accessible with a clear and competent communication.