Article

Name: Verbalization of music as semiotic transmutation

Authors: E.E. Brazgovskaya

Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University

Abstract: This article discusses the semiotics of music: music as a language (semiotic system), verbal descriptions of music (literary and artistic interpretations) as its translation. We analyzed two experiments of verbal interpretation of Frederic Chopinʼs Waltz cis-moll and defined reasons having a consequence that a translation of music is always probabilistic.

Keywords: semiotic transmutation, semiotics of music, semantics of music, probabilistic interpretation

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