Performing Semantics of Silence in Instrumental Music of the XX–XXI Centuries
Performing Semantics of Silence in Instrumental Music of the XX–XXI Centuries

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article. The research is connected with identification of semantic values of silence by musical and instrumental performance means. The methodology of a research consists in application of the historical and culturological, logic and semantic, esthetic, historical and logical, generalizing methods. Important musical and textual, analytical musicological and performing approaches are represented. All of them create unified methodological base of a research. The scientific novelty of work consists in expansion of ideas of figurative and semantic value of silence in instrumental music of XX – XXI centuries. Special "absoluteness" of silence in a musical-performing as "other being" of the thematic and sound values corresponding to procedurality of musical thinking, the nature of a musical chronotope and instrumental playing movements is approved. Conclusions. Understanding of philosophical, psychological, aesthetic, musicological and musical-performing meanings of silence and a pause in music brings to new semantic paradigms of art of the second half of XX – beginning of the XXI centuries. Forms of musical instrumental performing movements of "silence music" (a play in air, silent pressing of keys or valves of the instrument, etc.), the absoluteness of instrumental silence, its dramatized evident exaggeration embody the other being of loud tones and thematic structures in their art variety. Semantic range of an imagesymbol of silence fluctuates in music from intimate and trembling to philosophical, from expressive-strained to pacified.

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