ABSTRACT
Peircean semiotics provides a means to theorize processes of meaning generation in music that affords time a central role. This chapter develops ideas formerly presented by Raymond Monelle. It pays particular attention to Robert Hatten's achievements in the field of musical meaning whilst attempting to qualify and develop his work. The chapter focuses upon the way in which these signs combine in the process of semiosis. It also pays closer attention to the broad sweep of Peircean thought by considering the role of time in defining his categories which, in turn, may allow the authors to conceive more comprehensively the potential for semiotics to elucidate the listening process. To supplement his Lowell lectures in 1903 C. S. Peirce produced a large document entitled 'A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic'. The drawing together of subjectivity, signification and time in this theory produces a particularly dynamic conception of mus.
