Dragutin Gostuški and the semiotics of music

• Main Author: Tomašević Katarina
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Institute of Musicology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 2017-01-01
• Series: Muzikologija
• Subjects: Dragutin Gostuški; Gino Stefani; Institute of Musicology SASA; First International Colloquium on Semiotics of Music; “Réalité. Musique. Langage”
• Online Access: http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-9814/2017/1450-98141722177T.pdf

The main goals of this article, devoted to the contribution of the prominent Serbian musicologist, composer and aesthetician Dragutin Gostuški (1923-1998) to the semiotics of music, are the following: 1) to show the evolution of semiotic ideas in Gostuški’s work; 2) to reconstruct the circumstances under which preparations for the First International Colloquium on the Semiotics of Music took place; and 3) to encourage new research that would re-examine Gostuški’s major theoretical opus in the historical context of the discipline. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177004: Serbian Musical Identities Within Local and Global Frameworks: Traditions, Changes, Challenges]