1. Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar III.2Semiotic Anatomy III.2.1 (M Oct 05) de Saussure‘s Dichotomies

2. Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic, developed 1906- 1911 in his university courses in Geneva, and published posthum as cours de linguistique générale 1916: 1. signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) 2. arbitraire/motivé(arbitrary/motivated) 3. syntagme/paradigme(syntagm/paradigm) 4. langue/parole(language/speech) 5. synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) 6. lexem/shifter(lexem/shifter)

3. Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: 1. signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) 2. arbitraire/motivé(arbitrary/motivated) 3. syntagme/paradigme(syntagm/paradigm) 4. langue/parole(language/speech) 5. synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) 6. lexem/shifter(lexem/shifter)

4. Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar CT (contents ~signifié) SG (signification) EX (expressions ~signifiant)

5. Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: 1. signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) 2. arbitraire/motivé(arbitrary/motivated) 3. syntagme/paradigme(syntagm/paradigm) 4. langue/parole(language/speech) 5. synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) 6. lexem/shifter(lexem/shifter)

6. Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar LP motivated CD arbitrary onomatopoiesis

7. Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: 1. signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) 2. arbitraire/motivé(arbitrary/motivated) 3. syntagme/paradigme(syntagm/paradigm) 4. langue/parole(language/speech) 5. synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) 6. lexem/shifter(lexem/shifter)

8. Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar syntagmatic axis paradigmatic axis Roman Jakobson‘s poetical function: project paradigmatic axis onto syntagmatic axis aba‘b‘

9. Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: 1. signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) 2. arbitraire/motivé(arbitrary/motivated) 3. syntagme/paradigme(syntagm/paradigm) 4. langue/parole(language/speech) 5. synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) 6. lexem/shifter(lexem/shifter)

10. Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar T  S  D  T cadence „formula“ language speech my piece your piece her piece individual realization usage of formula your personal variant! the system!

11. Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar Pythagoras monochord tetractys

12. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Bach‘s music (letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter): I said this to myself: „As if the eternal harmony would have a conversation with itself, like what could have happened in God‘s chest before the world‘s creation—in such a way my interior was also agitated, and I felt as if I would not have or need ears, and the least eyes or other senses. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Bach‘s music (letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter): I said this to myself: „As if the eternal harmony would have a conversation with itself, like what could have happened in God‘s chest before the world‘s creation—in such a way my interior was also agitated, and I felt as if I would not have or need ears, and the least eyes or other senses.

13. Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar op. 23.5 (1920-23) Arnold Schönberg onset pitch

14. Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: 1. signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) 2. arbitraire/motivé(arbitrary/motivated) 3. syntagme/paradigme(syntagm/paradigm) 4. langue/parole(language/speech) 5. synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) 6. lexem/shifter(lexem/shifter)

15. Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar A semiotic is a system that evolves in time and is distributed in space: history cultures EuropeIndiaAmericaAsia 50‘000 years ago: music appears 2‘500 years ago: Pythagoras 300 years ago: J.S. Bach 20 years ago: Alanis Morissette synchronic axis diachronic axis

16. Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: 1. signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) 2. arbitraire/motivé(arbitrary/motivated) 3. syntagme/paradigme(syntagm/paradigm) 4. langue/parole(language/speech) 5. synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) 6. lexem/shifter(lexem/shifter)

17. Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar performance symbolic physical

18. M.C. Escher: Balcony

19. Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar

20. Sergiu Celibidache Faure - Requiem - Rehearsal - London Symphony Orchestra (BBC 1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BAsS5SmiNU