COMMUNICATIVE PROPERTIES OF IMPROVISATION
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COMMUNICATIVE PROPERTIES OF IMPROVISATION IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
COMMUNICATIVE PROPERTIES OF IMPROVISATION IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

Author(s): Kira Isaakivna Maidenberg-Todorova
Subject(s): Music, Semiology, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: improvisation; communication; interpretation; contemporary music

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of work is the improvisation phenomenon research in modern musical creativity and detection of its communicative properties. The research methodology is textual, comparative and typological, analytical and empirical approaches. Scientific novelty consists in definition of the immanent properties of improvisation, which are shown at various levels of musical communication. The research defines the system of communicative relationship between the composer, the performer and the listener, shown in modern music by means of improvisation. Conclusions. Improvisation manifested itself at all structural levels of musical communication, appearing in different functional manifestations – educational, interpretive and directly communication, which makes it a topical phenomenon in the modern musical creative work. Improvisation is the main way of performing the interpretation of the plaintext, acts as a communicative link between the performer and the composer, since it uses fixed elements and connections in the structure of composer's text as the organizing principle. Thus, improvisation is that particular parameter that helps to implement bilateral communication between participants of interpretational-communicative process of relationships composer-performer-listener.