Abstract

The musical thematicism of piano compositions of various styles is uncommonly rich and diverse. Outwardly its features are fixated in the score. However, the performer who is able to discern the semantic structures in the musical text will always have the opportunity of supple operation of them and creation of a bright performing plan of a musical composition on the basis of the revealed signature forms. Deciphered in the context of practical semantics, the semantic structures of a musical text may be combined into the performer’s scenario and manifested during the process of interpretation of a concrete composition. The acute reaction on the part of the performer, the instant restructuring of the playing apparatus and performance regulators of meaning – tempo, dynamics, articulation, agogics, and, altogether, intonation – all of this is possible to perfect and actualize with the aid of contemporary methods of work on the musical text. Characteristics of semantic differentiation and detailization within the authorial text – narrative programs, the theatralization of piano sound, musical dialogues, solo improvisational and ensemble musical statements – are fixated in a particular way in signature structures of the musical text and may be perceived and intoned by the performer. Keywords: musical text, semantic structures, plot-related situational signs, musical dialogues, intonational formulas, semantic figures, performance scenario.

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