La semiótica musical como herramienta para el estudio social de la música

The recent studies on musical signification have been determined by an apparently insurmountable gap between disciplines that focus on the musical text as sound (music theory, musicology), those that focus on the hearing subject (cognitive sciences, psychology of music) and those that focus on social discourses about music (ethnomusicology, anthropology, sociology). This article states that, in the most recent theoretical advances in music semiotics, it is possible to find elements to overcome this gap. After a brief examination of the key concepts of music semiotics, the author identifies three large groups of approaches to this problem: the semiotic-hermeneutic approach, the cognitive-embodied approach, and the social-political approach. This classification allows him to introduce a brief methodological proposal for the study of musical signification from different academic interests.