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| Author(s): |
Ricardo Nogueira de Castro Monteiro
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2002-12-16 |
| Examining board members: |
Luiz Augusto de Moraes Tatit;
Norma Discini de Campos;
Iva Carlos Lopes;
Lorenzo Mammi;
Jose Miguel Soares Wisnik
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| Advisor: | Luiz Augusto de Moraes Tatit |
| Abstract | |
The thesis Meaning in Music: semiotization of paradigmatic and synthagmatic structures in the production of musical sense was firstly conceived as an extension of a previous work, Musical Analysis: a semiotical approach. Its main target was to verify the efficiency of the previously developed model when applied to a non-western repertory. Eventually, the research was redirected towards the study of the semi-symbolic relations which ultimately orchestrate and organize the production of meaning in the various instances of the musical discourse. A new rhythmical approach was developed based on the Greek-roman theory on metric, and its advantages with respect to an orthodox consideration of duration noted in western musical writing were largely proved. The first piece of non-western repertory to be analyzed was the Egyptian song ya garat al-wadi. Three different versions were compared so that the essence of Eastern-Mediterranean music was found, and it was summarized in two main principles: the melismatic organization of melody and the absence of motivical structures were the semiotization of intervals themselves prevails. Also, the propositions on modulatory aspects by Greimas and Fontanille were considered insufficient to deal with the cyclical modulations that are extremely frequent in Eastern music. A new approach on cyclical modulations was thus proposed, discussing its two main possibilities: convergent or circular modulations, associated with the effect of realization, and divergent or spiral modulations, related with greimasian concept of potentialization. Finally, the focus was directed towards the presence of moor influence on Brazilian traditional music. Although consistent historical or analytical proof was not found, the chapter abandoned its previous diachronical approach to dive into a synchronic investigation on the semiotizatin of rhyme and its effects on the semi-symbolic relations which regulate the balance between verbal and musical instances in songs, thus establishing the basis to a new synchretic approach to the study of songs. (AU) | |