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Muzyka jako komunikat
Music as a Message

Author(s): Irena Burczyk
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, School education
Published by: Wydawnictwo LIBRON
Keywords: language of music; means of musical expression; message; forms of the musical message

Summary/Abstract: The following article focuses on the issue of music as a non-verbal message in the process of transferring emotional and semantic expression. The author, starting from the issues related to the language of music, reviews the selected means of musical expression that have been used by composers over the centuries. Furthermore, she also draws attention to the numerous similarities occurring in the space of communication observed in the language of music and the verbal language. Some reflections presented within the paper are also devoted to the presence of music as a form of message in film, theater and advertisements

  • Issue Year: 8/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 77-90
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish