The Semantic Structures of the Musical Text and Practical Semantics

The content of the musical text, as opposed to the text of the musical score with its parameters of composition and musical grammar, has not been described by theoreticians or practitioners in structural categories. There exists a stable tradition of a narrow grammatical directedness of teaching to read and interpret the text of the musical score. In analysis of musical composition there is a prevalence of either the grammatical-syntactic aspects (in the music theory disciplines), or the intuitive-artistic ones (in the historical disciplines). The structural approach makes it possible to change the results of penetration into the depths of musical content. This article acquaints the reader with this direction of elaboration of the technology of analysis and reading the semantic organization of the musical text. Examination is made of the structure of intonational formulas with established meanings and their features of accumulation of secondary semantic formation upon their migration from one musical text of a particular composer to another, or compositions of various genres and styles. The article contains information and references towards results of research works and publications in the sphere of practical semantics - a new direction in the works of Russian scholars under the tutelage of the author of this article in the community of scholars and researchers from the Laboratory for Musical Semantics.