ABOUT LIED… SIGNIFICANCE, SIGN, SIGNIFICANT New valences of the word derived from its fusion with music
Keywords:
lied, unspreadable unit, text-music priority, significance, semiosis, sign, significant, representamen, object, poetry versus musicAbstract
As a poetic-musical phenomenon, the lied is the origin, the seed of all significant lyric-poetic musical forms. The lied might also be the root of the multitude of forms, constructions of the western music from the first appearance of the song lyrics up to the present.The lied itself is a whole formed of words and sounds, sung poetry, a melody connected by words. The question is whether one of the two forms of art or artistic manifestation is a priority or if in the lied the literary and the musical text are structured in an unspreadable unit. The article is an incursion in the universe of sung poetry and brings arguments related to the equal importance of music and poetry in the lied, but especially the importance of the close relation between these two.
