Semantic Figures of Sorrow in the Language of European Music of the 17th-19th Centuries

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Galina R. Tarayeva

Abstract

The article proves the possibility of a descriptive analysis of musical semiotics within an area of the images of grief. The descriptive principle leans on the context of perceiving the symbolic layers of musical text. Semiotic metamorphoses of the “motif of pleading” are represented, exemplified by pieces composed from the 17th till the 19th centuries.

Keywords: theory of musical semiotics, perception of the meaning and symbol in music, the “motif of pleading”

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Tarayeva, G. R. (2012). Semantic Figures of Sorrow in the Language of European Music of the 17th-19th Centuries. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 10(1), 74–79. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/408
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Musical Poetics, Rhetoric and Semantics