Genre as an Object of Semiotic Research in the Musical Art at the Turn of the 20th – 21st Centuries (on the Example of Contemporary Moldavian Music)
Genre as an Object of Semiotic Research in the Musical Art at the Turn of the 20th – 21st Centuries (on the Example of Contemporary Moldavian Music)

Summary/Abstract: The musical art of the Republic of Moldova is an important part of the world cultural heritage. The present article is devoted to the study of the musical genre in the art of the turn of the 20th and the 21st centuries from the point of view of semiotics. The purpose of the article is to retrace the processes in the genre system of contemporary art on the example of Moldovan music using semiotic analysis. It examines the role of genre dramaturgy within the process of the musical composition semiosis, and the influence of genre on its semantic and syntactic structure musical text. The introduction discusses the importance of the topic, the research methodology and the terminology of semiotic analysis. The main body is devoted to the review of the genre picture within the contemporary composer’s creativity in Moldova, from the point of the semiology position. The author concludes that a change in the genre function of the text becomes the basis of semiotic creative work of modern musical art. The semiotic genre concept proposed in present article, can be used both for educational purposes within the studies of various subjects in theoretical cycle of higher professional education and scientific research, creative student’s and professors’ works of theoretical and performing specialties as well.

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