MUSICAL SPACE AS A WAY OF REFLECTING PUBLIC RELATIONS
MUSICAL SPACE AS A WAY OF REFLECTING PUBLIC RELATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The semantic universality of the space category and its relationship with the extra musical experience of the person providescomposers an opportunity to model various forms of public relations in music. Being guided by E. Hall’s theory and thefour models of communicative space identified by him – intimate, personal, social and public – we make an attempt to definethe specific features of these spatial models in music. In this paper, the principles of E. Hall’s theory are for the first time projectedon music. The research methods include hermeneutics, inter-disciplinary approach and musicological analysis.The research of the samples of instrumental music written by Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt showedthe specific features of the intimate space model as the basic isolation of its structure, hierarchy and a special toponymy of theman’s inner world including the invariant steady presence of certain subjects and objects. The research of other spatial modelsin music shows prospects of conceiving the evolution of music as a special spatial form of reflecting the patterns of public consciousnessand society arrangement.

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