MODERNITY AND ACCESSIBILITY. A POSSIBLE PARADIGM FOR MUSICAL COMPOSITION
MODERNITY AND ACCESSIBILITY. A POSSIBLE PARADIGM FOR MUSICAL COMPOSITION

Summary/Abstract: In the process of communication, music plays different roles and therefore can be conceived in terms of five different perspectives: psychological, social, cultural, ideological and moral. To play these complex roles, music needs to be able to be understood. In this study we will focus only on the problem of accessibility and of its relationship with modernity, illustrating certain theoretical assumptions with samples of musical experience that are highly relevant in this context. We will start our quest for the purports of the phenomenon of accessibility by relating to a dialogic linguistic model imagined by the Russian linguist Yuri M. Lotman, which we will expand and extrapolate. Then, in the realm of accessibility we will distinguish between the receiving subject and the meaning-bearing object – in this case, the musical work of art – to then make the junction with another exemplary model proposed by the American composer and researcher Fred Lerdahl, commented and completed through an edifying parallel with the literature of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Our final proposal will thus prove to be not only a challenging scientific endeavour, but also a viable creative route into contemporaneity.

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