The Semantic Structures of Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonata for Clavier К. 466, L. 118 in F minor
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The issue of comprehension of the content of musical compositions has been of active interest
on the part of performers and music theorists for a long period of time. For over five centuries
human beings have aspired to discern the composer’s conception in musical note-based symbols.
And the more substantial the performance, the more truthfully it conveys the authorial conception
to the listener. In this connection the author of the article presumes that the time for priority for
the intuitive component in performance, which, undoubtedly, is very important, has nevertheless
passed. In the present day, in many ways as the result of intensive development of musicology and
its connections with contiguous disciplines, there have appeared various technologies with the help
of which the task of cognition of the musical text, penetration deeply into the substance of a musical
composition has become fully possible. In this direction we must acknowledge the great merit of
the research group of the Laboratory of Musical Semantics of the Ufa State Institute of Arts headed
by Doctor of Arts, Professor Liudmila Shaymukhametova, the author of the methodology of the
semantic analysis of musical compositions.
The article makes use of elements of this method of semantic analysis upon the deciphering
of semantic structure of the content of Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonata for clavier К. 466, L. 118 in
F minor – a composition in which it is possible to read the semantic meanings of the baroque
instrumental and vocal intonational lexis, as well as the lexis of instrumental ensembles. It examines
the problem of the correlation of the semantic structures of the primary (authorial) text and its
semantic specification in the secondary text (the performance scenario).
Keywords: the clavier sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, the semantic analysis of a musical theme,
the intonational lexis of musical compositions from the baroque period, semantic structures of
musical thematicism, intonational formulas, the Laboratory for Musical Semantics.
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