Semiotic Concept
A concept which was taken over into musicology from the language area. In the Soviet musicology it is used for the purposes the Boris Asafiev’s concept of the intonation nature of music. This concept looks at intonation (интонация, "intonatsia") as a basis of musical expression, and relates it to the peculiarities of different national or personal styles. The basis of the intonation doctrine was laid by Russian musicologist Boleslav Javorsky (1877-1942) and developed by Asafiev.
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