Le 30 juin 2017
de 9h40 à 9h45
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
amphithéâtre Cavaillès
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteur : Sanja Kiš Žuvela
The 20th century left behind an astonishing number of music theory treatises, analytical theories and compositional practices that use a large set of newly-coined special terms. They often migrated together with their smiths introducing new concepts to different language communities. The terms and their respective concepts developed and changed in new contexts, gradually diverging from their initial contents, influenced by local analytical traditions, terminologies as well as compositional practices. Migrating composers and analysts were often compelled to express their ideas in a non-native language, which not only challenged their expressive potential, but also modified their conceptualization of music. A contemporary music scholar has to deal with a diversity of semantic variation within his field. The aim of the research is to show variation in terminology usage based upon a specialized corpus of 20th century music analysis literature in various European languages. The main frameworks of the research are the prevailing standards used in contemporary terminological databases to determine evaluation and translation criteria for musical terms under consideration. The terms are extracted from the specialized 20th century corpora consisting of various musicological referential publications, music analysis treatises, textbooks and compositional theories. The epistemological fields to be considered are music theory and analysis, as well as contrastive linguistics and sociolinguistics. The research is a part of a larger terminology standardization project (www.conmusterm.eu) aimed to developing a multilingual terminological database.
