On Applying the Informational Approach in Musicology Research Works
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Abstract
The discussions of the issue of application of the informational
approach, which began in Russian musicology in the 1960s, have
preserved their relevance up to the present day. A fair amount of
authoritative scholars have been veritably applying the present
approach in their works, but there are still those who doubt the
potentials of its application in musicology and even the legitimacy
of the use of the term “information.” The multiple meanings of the
term “information” have been indicated as one of the arguments
against the informational approach – for example in the article
by Dmitri Gorbatov published earlier in this issue. Nonetheless,
multiple meanings are intrinsic to many concepts, and this cannot
present a reason for denying the possibility of their usage in a
scholarly text. The other argument against it – the absence in
music of any emotional or notional content – is refuted by musical
practice itself. Thereby, the informational approach has not in the
least exhausted its scholarly potential in musicological works,
since it is not the method that stipulated the effectiveness of the
research but the means of its application.
Keywords: musical information, informational approach,
musical semantics
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