Jean-Jacques Nattiez OC CQ FRSC (French: [natje]; born December 30, 1945, in Amiens, France) is a musical semiologist or semiotician and professor of musicology at the Université de Montréal.^[1] He studied semiology with Georges Mounin and Jean Molino and music semiology (doctoral) with Nicolas Ruwet.^{[citation needed]}

He is a noted specialist on the writings of the composer and conductor Pierre Boulez.^[2]

In 1990, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2001, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec.^[1][3]

• 1988, Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association^[2]
• 1989, Prix André-Laurendeau pour les sciences humaines from the Association canadienne française pour l'avancement des sciences^[2]
• 1990, Molson Prize from the Canada Council^[2][3]
• 1994, prix Léon-Gérin pour les sciences sociales du Gouvernement du Québec^[3]
• 1996, Fumio Koizumi Prize for Ethnomusicology, Tokyo, Japan
• 2004, the Killam Prize by the Canada Council for the Arts^[3]
• In 2011, he was promoted to Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to the development of musicology as a researcher, professor and specialist of music semiotics".^[4]

• Proust as Musician. Translated by Derrick Puffett. Cambridge, 1989.
• Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Musicologie générale et sémiologue, 1987). Translated by Carolyn Abbate (1990). ISBN 0-691-02714-5.
• Wagner Androgyne: A Study in Interpretation. Translated by Stewart Spencer. Princeton University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-691-04832-0 (pbk).

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