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NASSIF, Silvia Cordeiro  y  SCHROEDER, Jorge Luiz. Music and imagery: establishing meaning relations. LTP [online]. 2014, vol.32, n.62, pp.99-114. ISSN 2317-0972.

Abstract: Music is a form of highly abstract language and it enables various listening possibilities, which range from a more sensorial approach (listening predominantly with the body: feeling like dancing, stomping our feet, moving around, and so on), to experiencing its more referential potentials (listening and establishing relationships with extra-sonorous references: remembering past events, people, situations, etc.), and even reaching a more properly aesthetical listening (listening considering the internal sound-musical materiality relationships: relating works to styles, time frames, specific forms…). We present, in this paper, the possibility of non-musician listeners expanding their modes of significant retaining of music, with special emphasis on its aesthetical dimensions. In order to achieve this aim, as a methodological resource, we present an approximation between musical language and image (pictorial, graphic, photographic and video graphic imagery) in an effort to offer a more “concrete” alternative to musical abstraction, proposing that references be created in order to achieve listening in a more aesthetical way, beyond its sensorial or referential nature. The imagery language is used not only for the fact it is absolutely dominant in our contemporary society, but above all for keeping deep meaningful relations with the music, ranging from possible associations of character to more properly structural relationships, such as rhythm, energy (variations in intensity), the modes of organization of events, among others.

Palabras clave : Music; Aesthetical Experimentation; Musical Language and Imagery.

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