Medial Perspective of the Sign-Language Evolution of Music (Based on the Ukrainian Chamber Compositions of the Turn of the 20th – 21st Centuries) Cover Image

Медіальна перспектива мовно-знакової еволюції музики (на матеріалі українських камерно-інструментальних композицій межі ХХ – ХХІ століть)
Medial Perspective of the Sign-Language Evolution of Music (Based on the Ukrainian Chamber Compositions of the Turn of the 20th – 21st Centuries)

Author(s): Anastasia Igorivna Kravchenko
Subject(s): Music, Semiology, Aesthetics, Recent History (1900 till today), History of Art
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: chamber ensemble; semiology; media; medial properties of music; musical intermediality; intermedial typology; synthesis; code; synergy; universal semiotics;

Summary/Abstract: The aim. The aim of the work is to justify the appropriateness of using the term "media" in relation to music and to identify ways of functioning of unrelated sign codes at the system-structural level of organizing musical information, which is based on the material of chamber music of Ukraine at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Methodology. In the analysis of the polysemyotic compositional integrity of modern Ukrainian chamber pieces the musicological, structural-semantic, semiotic, intermedial, comparative-typological methods were used. Scientific novelty. For the first time on the material of the semiosphere of Ukrainian chamber creativity, medial perspectives of the sign-language evolution of music are highlighted and general criteria for the typological classification of intermedial links in music are outlined. Conclusions. At the present stage, philosophical and cultural universalism of musical aesthetics, which is reflected in the polylogue of musical and extra-musical stylistics, becomes the decisive semiotic and conceptually meaning. This trend causes the expansion of the logical-conceptual apparatus of musicology to polymethodological vectors – the discursive synthesis of research paradigms. Proceeding from the cultural and semiotic positions, it is quite legitimate to use the term "media" in music, the cultural and iconic complex of which demonstrates the ability to interpret and translate not only a rich palette of cultural and semantic meanings, but also a wide range of cultural and symbolic codes, which confirms the presence of medial functions musical semiotics. The presented typology of intermedial links is based on the definition of explicit and implicit principles of the functioning of unrelated symbolic codes and stylistics of artistic and extra-artistic origin in the semiotic space of musical compositions. We are talking about: 1) the multisemiotic way of organizing artistic-semiotic integrity based on the principle of explicit synthesis of stylistic-technological and expressive possibilities of music and other arts as an combination of different semiotic series; 2) the monosemiotic method, based on the principle of implicit synergy of semiotic music codes and any other artistic and extra-artistic symbolic systems, presupposing the "recoding" of some semiotic codes in the language of others. Thus, the medial perspective of the linguistic and linguistic evolution of music is the path to a universal, polyfunctional semiotics, directing the structuring of musical matter in semiotically complexly organized texts with a doubled semantic potential.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 145-155
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Ukrainian