The semiotics of improvisation: The pragmatics of musical and verbal performance

Semiotica

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 269-306

  Sawyer, R Keith ^a  

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EID: 0009257055     PISSN: 00371998     EISSN: 16133692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.108.3-4.269     Document Type: Article

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