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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• ALLAN R. KEILER
• Wendy Steiner

Titel

Two Views of Musical Semiotics

Ist Teil von

• The Sign in Music and Literature, 2014, p.138

Ort / Verlag

University of Texas Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

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• Comparisons between language and music are not hard to find in most periods of musical scholarship. Indeed analogies of this kind occur already in the earliest periods of Sanskrit literature. Some of these earliest concerns with language and music reflect the Indian scholars’ particular attitude toward universais. One anonymous manuscript, for example, “explains the formation of musical sounds on the basis of the Maheshvara Sūtra-s, an esoteric arrangement of syllabic sounds, which Nandikeshvara also accepts as the philosophical basis of the Sanskrit language and, in fact, all language.”¹ Vedic, unlike classical Sanskrit, was a tone language, and Indian theorists also