MODERN PIANO SEMIOLOGY: HISTORICAL-STYLE AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to outline the main directions of development and priority positions of the historical and semiological study of piano creativity as an autonomous musical and discursive field. The methodology of the work makes it possible to significantly update the structural-semantic typological and genre-stylistic analytical methods, which involve addressing specific textual levels of music, in particular, performing ones. The updated historical-semiological perspective of music-performance textology involves a comparative approach, i.e. music-linguistic comparativism, at the same time in a kind of retrospection, i.e. in the direction of searching for the main precedents – both texts and meanings, both signs and meanings. The scientific novelty of this article is determined by the discovery of a new semiological direction of studying piano creativity and its own discursive possibilities generated by it. The importance of the romantic period of European history as the culmination and peak level of development of the piano tradition, both composer and performer, is proved. The priority of performing instructions in the formation of the conceptual and metaphorical content of piano music is revealed, as well as the complexity and multi-levels of piano performing poetics. Conclusions. Piano music as a branch of performing creativity can be considered as an autonomous musical discourse that possesses immanent means of conceptual and metaphorical transformation of reality and exists in a constant dialogue with historical time. The historical approach – the discovery of one’s own historical logos of piano creativity – allows you to establish special chronological stylistic coordinates within the performing piano discourse, to note both its certain retrospective orientation, in search of relevant semantic and textual precedents, and its necessary connection with romantic experience, as with the main a source of performing speech, a supplier of a «performing lexicon», a thesaurus of piano techniques.