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Naturalistic approaches to musical semiotics and the study of causal musical signification

The naturalist approach, which aims at applying methods from the natural sciences to the study of music, provides a straightforward paradigm for dealing with causal musical signification processes. What is aimed at in this paper is (i) a tentative reconstruction of the tradition underlaying causal musical signification in its relationship to semiotics, (ii) the presentation and discussion of a framework by which aspects of causal musical signification can be studied and dealt with. ∗Published in: I. Zannos (Ed.) (1999). Music and Signs – Semiotic and Cognitive Studies in Music, Bratislava: ASCO Art and Science, pp.11-38. (Also available at: http://www.ipem.rug.ac.be/staff/marc/marc.html)