Preface -- Costantino Maeder and Mark Reybrouck -- Part One -- Setting the Stage: Music-In-Action, Semiotics, and Intermediality -- Music, Speech and Meaning in Interaction -- Ian Cross -- Capturing the Music: The Thin Line Between Mediation and Interference -- Zelia Chueke and Isaac Chueke -- Performativity Through(out) Media: Analyzing Popular Music Performance in the Age of Intermediality -- Maurizio Corbella -- Part Two -- Representation, Interpretation, and Meaning -- Reading a Work of Music from the Perspective of Integral Interpretation -- Mieczysław Tomaszewski -- La musique au second degré: on Gérard Genette's Theory of Transtextuality and its Musical Relevance -- Paulo F. de Castro -- Semiotic Narrativization Processes -- Nicolas Marty -- Musical Understanding: Wittgenstein, Ethics, and Aesthetics -- Paulo C. Chagas -- Where to Draw the Line? Representation in Intermedial Song Analysis -- Lea Maria Lucas Wierød -- Part Three -- Experience, Cognition, and Affect -- The Ability of Tonality Recognition as One of Human-Specific Adaptations -- Piotr Podlipniak -- Musical Semiotics and Analogical Reference -- Lawrence M. Zbikowski -- The Other Semiotic Legacy of Charles Sanders Peirce: Ethology and Music-Related Emotion -- David Huron -- Part Four -- Intermediality and Transdisciplinarity -- The Death of Klinghoffer: From Stage to Screen -- Maarten Nellestijn -- The Perception of Art Songs Through Image: A Semiotic Approach -- Mônica Pedrosa de Pádua -- "What Kind of Genre Do You Think We Are?" Genre Theories, Genre Names and Classes within Music Intermedial Ecology -- Gabriele Marino -- Part Five -- Analysis and Beyond -- A Story or Not a Story? Pascal Dusapin's Opera Roméo & Juliette (1988) and New Ways of Musical Narratives -- Małgorzata Pawłowska.

Authorship, Narrativity and Ideology: The Case of Lennon-McCartney1 -- Dario Martinelli -- The Sublime as a Topic in Beethoven's Late Piano Sonatas -- Jamie Liddle -- Melodic Forces and Agential Energies: An Integrative Approach to the Analysis and Expressive Interpretation of Tonal Melodies -- Robert S. Hatten -- The Embodiment of Yearning: Towards a Tripartite Theory of Musical Agency -- Rebecca Thumpston -- Editors -- Contributors.