Figurative and semantic content of interpretation: a hermeneutic approach

Abstract

The study is dedicated to the justification of the hermeneutic approach to the analysis of the figurative and semantic content of interpretation in musical art. The attention of the research is narrowed to the formulation of the problem of interpretation of the laws of creation of figurative and semantic content of interpretation in vocal performance. The interpretation of the hermeneutic approach in musical art is presented on the basis of key philosophical categories – transcendentalism; intersubjectivity; intertextuality – and their semantic content from t he standpoint of musical hermeneutics. A generalization of scientific developments regarding the author’s aspect of the figurative and semantic content of the interpretation of a vocal work is presented. The stages of the algorithm for substantiating and building a hermeneutic approach to the interpretation of the figurative and semantic content of a vocal work are proposed. Based on the researched problems of interpretation of the author’s text by the performers, the aspects of the interpretive content of the vocal work are presented: the psychological aspect – the performer’s discovery of the “inner world” of the author’s score; professional competence aspect – use of the “hermeneutic circle” method; the ability to see the “structuring” of the text, thus understanding the dynamics of drama through the whole concept of the work and through its parts; socio-historical aspect – “historical reconstruction” of the author’s idea as material for understanding the cultural-historical context of the birth of the work; the ability to understand the content of modern experience; the ability to see the emergence of new meanings in dialogue with tradition. The identified aspects allow for a broad analysis of the essence of the figurative and semantic content of a vocal work and the determination of their interpretive factors in the context of the hermeneutic approach in musical art. In our work, we use general scientific methods of research: the method of analysis, synthesis, comparison, and systematization. We also take into account the results of awareness and systematization of executive and pedagogical experience. The need for definition, analysis and detailed study of the performance aspect of the visual and semantic content of the interpretation of a vocal work is formulated and substantiated.