Semiología musical

Semiology or musical semiotics is the study of the semiosis that takes place inside a musical community, when it produces, executes or listens to music. This discipline is mainly concerned with the study of the possible correlations between sound structures and specific concepts posed by individuals in a particular musical society. However, the musical semiology encompasses much more.

The musical semiology analyzes everything that allows us to understand a musical fact in its entirety: from the processes of creation and interpretation of a work, to those of perception, through the internal structure of that work, based on the analysis of his score Therefore, it is the domain of musical semiology to study the influences that a composer had to create a particular piece, the musical resources he used, the way in which the different sounds and elements of the music are articulated and the emotions, ideas and corporal responses that presents a certain listening to perceive it, among others.

The field of musical semiology is extremely extensive and relates to many other disciplines, beyond those linked to musical theory. Semiotics in the words of Rubén López Cano is "an interdisciplinary orchestrator of all branches of knowledge ... that is, an interdisciplinary vertebrate". Recent developments in semiotics respond to the most complex paradigms of research in all humanities, arts and sciences, since with the methodologies it proposes, typologies can be generated that effectively segment the most intricate phenomena, making them accessible to their study. From this, various orientations emerge such as Claude Lévi-Strauss's structural anthropology, Umberto Eco's linguistic semiotics, semiotics of culture, biosemiotics, etc.

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