of Journal of Chongqing Jiaotong University, since 2015; Member of the Editorial Board of Advisers at Central Asian Journal of Art Studies, Kazak National University of Al Farabi, Almaty, Kazakhstan, since 2015 Media "Sémiotique et musicologie - Eero Tarasti", a film about the life and work of Eero Tarasti, in French and English (4 hours), produced by Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, by professor Peter Stockinger, Paris, 2004, in the collection "Entretiens. Les archives de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales" (available also at internet: http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20141126071357/http%3A//www.fmsh.fr/) Honors Eero Tarasti has received several international honours as follows: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1997; Honorary Doctor of the Estonian Music Academy, 1999; Honorary Doctor of the New Bulgarian University, Sofia, 2001 Honorary Doctor at Université Aix-Marseille, 2014 Honorary Doctor at “Georghe Dima” Music Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Rumania, 2016 He is also Honorary Fellow of the Victoria College, University of Toronto; Fellow of the International Communicology Institute, Washington D.C. ,USA, 2010 In Finland he got the J.V.Snellman Prize of the University of Helsinki 1997 and the Science Prize of the City of Helsinki, 1998; he is Honorary Member of the Richard Wagner Society in Finland 2008 He has been decorated by the 1st Class Medal of the White Rose Order of Finland 1999 The Medal of the Order of Rio Branco, Brazil (the category of Officials) 2000, and by Chevalier de l’Ordre Palme Académique, France, 2004 Publications (books only) Myth and Music. A Semiotic Approach to the Aesthetics of Myth in Music, especially that of Wagner, Sibelius and Stravinsky 1979 (Berlin: Mouton; in Finnish 1994; in French Mythe et musique, Michel de Maule 2003) Heitor Villa-Lobos 1996 (North Carolina: McFarland; in Finnish 1987) A Theory of Musical Semiotics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994) Musical Signification (ed.) (Berlin: Mouton) 1995 Semiotics of Music (ed.) 1987 (Semiotica) Semiotics of Finland (ed.) 1991 (Semiotica) La musique comme language I-II (ed.) 1987-88 (Degres) Sémiologie et pratiques esthetiques (ed.) 1991 (Degres) Center and Periphery (ed. Acta Semiotica Fennica ASF) 1990 On the Borderlines of Semiosis (ed. ASF) 1992 Introduction to Semiotics (in Finnish) 1990 The Dream and Exaltation of Romanticism (in Finnish) 1992 Le secret du professeur Amfortas (novel, in French, Paris: L'Harmattan) 2000 Musical Semiotics in Growth (ed. ASF/IU Press) 1996 La sémiotique musicale (Presses Universitaires de Limoges) 1996 Examples (in Finnish) 1996 Semiotics of Music (ed. in electronic journal Applied Semiotics, Toronto, Canada);