Semiotic trans-temporality: communication of culture in two cultures of communications

摘要

[Abstract] My paper wants examine the trans temporality importance of the semiotic approach to realize newness in two music/dramaturgical phenomenon temporally distant about seven centuries: on the one hand giving a new approach to the relationships between middle age Officium Stellae drama’s inner expressive codes and its communicative resonances and on the other hand discovering in contemporary Star’s plays, descending from medieval drama, a real culture of communication of own values of identity and belonging, an unexplored point of interest for semiotic investigation. Musical signification’s power of ri-semiotization on the informational polyphony and density of signs in the drama of Officium Stellae, already reveals a real culture of communications ante tempore, that is evident in particular analyzing the rules-relations between music and: conventions governing kinesic, proxemic codes and dramatic space, scenic subcodes, syntactic, semantic, phonological constitutive rules, semiotic potential of multilanguage that reflects socio-cultural attribution of sense, overcoding of voice projection, paralinguistic constraints on character interpretation, influence of local and regional factors on performance, “authenticating” conventions constraining dramatic action as real; ethical constraints on the judgement of character regarding good and evil, stereotypes “comic - parodist” and “tragic” behavioural rules, communicative resonances. In contemporary musical practices, Star’s plays in north Italy represent an interesting source of innovation and originality, in constant evolution, transformed by socio- cultural audience, but loyal to medieval heritage and symbols, a new musical dramaturgy, often heir of that medieval, where globalization and musical-anthropological archetypes interact. From historically point of view Sabbia Valley missed the political opportunities to mature a strong sense of identity, so the songs of the Star seem to give shape to this identity, distinguishing it form other valleys, creating an own culture in which identify and setting up a range of communicative devices to hand out its values and symbolical significations. Officium Stellae in Middle Age and Star’s plays today, perpetuates, like all rites, their own meaning: ri- signifying year after year, they mark and give values to time-seasons’ flow, creating participations and allowing to share knowledge.