Status and Types of Quotations in a Musical Text

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to reveal the issues that highlight the status of the quotation in the musical text, as well as the problems of identification, recognition and readability of quotations of different types; to investigate the perception of the quoted material as another, alien in the flow of the author’s speech, which is the essence of the quotation. Identification of a quotation, problems of its readability and recognizability, the semantics contained in the quotation, including in the text the meanings of “others”, and “other texts” and building an intertextual strategy in the process of perceiving the text with the implementation of fragments of other texts have not been sufficiently and incompletely studied, and the results of these studies have not been properly systematized. The research methodology. Some methods are involved for the optimal solution of the tasks, among which the main ones are the source, systematic, comparative and terminological. The scientific novelty of the research. For the first time in Ukrainian musicology, the text-creating potential of quotations in a musical work is characterized, their status is determined, and the main types of quotations in music are described. Conclusions. The quotation in music is an effective means of diversifying the text of the work, enriching the meanings used, and adjusting the meanings formed. Taking into account the provisions of modern receptive poetics, we state that the quotation should be considered the textual material that is perceived by the listener as different from the main material of speech, alien in style, type of transmitted meanings or semantics, as a carrier of a different functional and stylistic code. The issues of readability of the quotation and its identification are important. Therefore, the appropriate and accurately readable form of quotation is put forward to the forefront in the perception of musical works with quotations.