Ojala, Space in musical semiosis - an abductive theory of the musical composition process

Space in musical semiosis examines key issues of musical signification. It employs C. S. Peirce's semiotics and cognitive metaphor theories to establish a theory of the musical composition process, an epitome of musical signification. Music signifies by virtue of two kinds of metaphors in thought-signs. Conceptual metaphors represent situations of the world. Musical metaphors join musical situations with those of possible words due to their similarities as conceptual spaces. To compose music...