The Song Cycle: Hermeneutic and Communication Approaches

摘要

The paper is dedicated to interpretation-based multifaceted connections characteristic to the song cycle genre. The authors discuss the song cycle evolution, the ways of its transformation development trends. Being one of the beloved genres of the classical music, it has undergone dramatic changes which stem from globalization, social and cultural transformations, and changes in people's mindset. The song cycle here is viewed as a multifaceted system, its elements building a hermeneutic bridge between language, music, communication, mind and emotions. The genre is unique in view of its being an organic unity of poetry and music, as well as a mediator between poetic and musical meaning, interpretatively linking the poet, composer, performer and listener outside of space and time.