O roli kultury w procesie percepcji, interpretacji i werbalizacji dzieła muzycznego
On the Role of Culture in the Process of Perception, Interpretation and Verbalization of a Musical Work

Summary/Abstract: The text aims to review research directions and introduce the issues of per-ception, interpretation, and verbalization of a musical work in the context of the culturalbackground of both the composer and the listener-interpreter. The first part of the articlehighlights the cultural determinants of music reception from a sociological, psychological,and musicological perspective. A dual approach to the analysis of musical material, thecomposition process, and the interpretation of a musical work is distinguished, dependingon whether culture is perceived as a subjective or universal cognitive category of an indi-vidual. The same differentiation is introduced in the final part of the text, where, based onthe assumptions of cultural linguistics, elements of the linguistic worldview of music aredescribed, divided into linguistic universalisms and subjectivisms. The final part of the textalso outlines the current state of research on the verbalization of musical works, emphasiz-ing the need for confrontational studies as crucial to uncovering the influence of culture intranslating the language of music into natural language. The conducted review of researchtrends leads to the conclusion that the interpretation of a musical work is both a culturallyuniversal and individual phenomenon. A similar phenomenon can be observed in the lin-guistic analysis of the verbalization of musical work interpretation – linguistic universalismpertains to the perception and description of the constant elements of a musical work and isoften institutionalized in the form of terminology. Subjective elements of the language ofperception and interpretation of a musical work are related to the socio-cultural situation ofthe individual as well as their emotional and axiological approach.

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