On the Semantic and Non-semantic Nature of Music

DOI

10.2991/icemaess-17.2017.66How to use a DOI?

Keywords

semantic nature of music, non-semantic nature, meaning, particularity.

Abstract

Is music semantic or non-semantic? For a long time, there have been different opinions, but most people hold the bias that music is non-semantic and neglect research on the semantic nature of music. This paper made an attempt to discuss the semantic and non-semantic nature of music. Music not only means its pure form, but conveys emotions through "sounds" and "tunes", which always contains some meaning. As for the non-semantic nature of music, it lies in that musical material is not semantic and musical sounds play a decisive role.In the long history of music, semantic interpretations of music are commonly seen, but there are many vague "non-semantic" words in real life and literary works, and something non-semantic also exists in music.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shanshan Liu
PY  - 2017/12
DA  - 2017/12
TI  - On the Semantic and Non-semantic Nature of Music
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Education, Management, Arts, Economics and Social Science (ICEMAESS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 297
EP  - 300
SN  - 2352-5398
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