Since (Tarasti's) is unquestionably the most fully developednarrative theory in the literature, this book is an important landmark... " --Music & LettersEero Tarasti advances a semiotic theory ofmusic based on information provided by the history of Western music and by varioussign theories. A Theory of Musical Semiotics provides a model for the semioticanalysis of both musical structure and semantics. It introduces English-languagereaders to musical narratology, which has been largely the province of Europeanresearchers.