ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 explores how some of the intellectual gestures found in the writings of Barthes and Derrida might be used to this end. I thus present a brief discussion of Barthesian authoriality and of the analytical meaning and bearing of some key Derridean ideas such as dissémination, signature, différance, archi-écriture, and trace. These notions help us sketch a first tentative answer to the key questions introduced at the end of Chapter 1. But how can these ideas bear an impact on a musical-analytical perspective?
