Poziomy interpretacyjne struktur muzycznych intertekstualnie jawnych. Na przykładzie III Symfonii Pawła Mykietyna

The topic of this article is the issue of intertextuality in word-and-music works. The analysis of it requires an identification of overtly intertextual units, as well as intersemiotic relations established among them, both in the sphere of linguistics and the poetics of the musical work. In the interpretation of the extratextual meanings of the work the author proposes their examination at four hierarchically dependent levels: (1) of overtly intertextual musical structures, (2) of semantic meanings of the said structures, (3) of the form of the work as an area of activation of the above mentioned structures, and (4) of the ideological/cultural meaning of the work. In the sphere of musical phenomena, overtly intertextual structures may include textural-sound figures, as well as the units of musical form. The sphere of meanings requires the recognition of the sources of semi-osis, semantic functions, and cultural intermediations of the said structures, interpreted on the basis of semiotic methodologies. At the level of musical poetics, the visualization of relations between the individual musical phenomena and their functions in the context of the entirety of the work constitutes the basis for the interpretation of its meaning in relation to the theories of the leading interpreters of postmodernist culture. The Third Symphony for alto solo and symphony orchestra by Paweł Mykietyn (2011) reveals in its structure numerous overtly intertextual units, as well as formal and generic patterns and construction techniques allowing one to determine the cultural meaning of the work in which the composer entered into “a daring dialog with postmodernism”. The concept of the work, a polemic with tradition (interaction of high and popular — youth culture elements), a provocative gesture, of sorts, by the artist, defines the position and the value of Paweł Mykietyn’s Third Symphony in the area of postmodern culture works.