PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZING SOCIAL SPACE IN MUSIC: CONVERGENCE

Abstract

The concept of „social” space was developed by the American anthropologist E. Hall in the work „Hidden Dimension”, implying a distance from 120 cm to 3 m, typical of official communication. The purpose of the study of social space in music is to identify the principles of the organization of social space in a small group that contribute to the processes of semantic formation. In the organization of interaction of participants of a small group in music, manifestations of synchronicity and symmetry which are indicators of action of the General principle — convergence — are established; (from Lat. converge-approach, converge) — contrasting comparison of musical themes, and then their convergence and harmonious fusion. The result of the use of convergence by composers in opuses is associated with the identification of a General category of meaning — for example, „terror”, „love”, „peace” and others, for which the gradual display of inner kinship between contrasting principles is carried out. Keywords: social space, interaction, musical meanings, hermeneutics

Keywords

• social space
• musical meanings
• hermeneutics