The parallelism between Linguistics and Music – Noam Chomsky and Heinrich Schenker
The parallelism between Linguistics and Music – Noam Chomsky and Heinrich Schenker

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to compare musical language with verbal language, creating anew perspective on music and natural language. The three categories of linguistics,phonology, syntax and semantics are analyzed. Bernstein highlights the analogies betweenthe linguistic categories and music, researching the same three components of linguistics inmusic. The possibility of applying the transformational grammar procedures to the musicaltext is studied. In the second part of the paper, the authors investigate the method ofanalysis based on harmony and counterpoint, differentiating several structural levelsconceived by the theoretical musician H. Schenker. Schenkerian analyzes are a relativelyrecent appearance in the field of musical analysis, which proposes as an innovation in thefield of musical analysis the structural vision of musical discourse.

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