Semantic Score of a Novel Pointed at Music

Abstract

In a complex process of literature and music mutual elucidation an important feature of both types of art – their tendency to interchange, which results in a joint operation context in revelation of their semantic potential which becomes evident only under these conditions – is defined. Thereupon, one may speak of the relationship between literature and music as of a meaningful co-existence, which, in turn, goes beyond each of these kinds of art and aspires to independent sense generating text. From this perspective, an interesting and widespread German literature phenomenon of a novel semantic field enrichment by involving a musical text in it acquires a new definition of a special semantic score, called upon to demonstrate dialogism and dynamics of structure formed as a result of this process and its sense generating potential. This literary work is presented as “a new text”, originality of which is the fact that “event of its life, that is its real nature” (Mikhail Bakhtin) is developed on the edge of two interrelated texts – verbal and musical – as the sources of its sense generation. Thus, the novel pointed at music represents complicated relationships of musical text as the subject of understanding and interpretation with the contextual framing necessary for it. It is ascertained that, notwithstanding the fact that the scope of musical semantics is most uncertain and ambiguous, it is that music is able to function in the novel semantic field just as text. Under the circumstances, to achieve the status of the musical communication proper, musical expression in the novel should be as closely associated with the music-syntagmatic sphere as possible.