Métamorphoses de l’intrigue musicale (XIXe-XXe siècles)

• Main Author: Márta Grabócz
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Récits Cultures Et Sociétés 2012-01-01
• Series: Cahiers de Narratologie
• Subjects: curiosité; intrigue; musique; narrativité; sémiotique; signification musicale
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/narratologie/6503

The author defines at first the narratological frame, that of classical narratology, in the aim to explore musical narrativity. She provides six types of definition according to their pertinence in musical analysis. In order to create a possible correspondence between the narrative sequence and the sections of a musical piece, the author introduces the notion of “musical signification” and their terms used in musicology : the category of “topic” and that of “intonation”. As to their modes of organization within a musical form, some semiotic and narrative models are mentioned, those used by different musicologists. The part III provides “classical” definitions of the plot, followed by two musical examples (a “Biblical sonata” by Kuhnau from 1700 and the Andante of the symphony K.504 of Mozart). The part IV of the article presents the ”post-classical” definitions of the plot which will be illustrated by the Overture N° 3 “Leonor” of Beethoven as an example of “suspense”, and by the Vallée d’Obermann of Liszt as an example of “curiosity”.