The score and the performer’s communication
Artistic freedom in a semiotic perspective
Abstract
The performer's freedom is a balance between individual freedom and stylistic and contextual awareness of possible artistic expressions. In classical music, the notation system has been cultivated over the centuries. The composer's notation represents a significant loss of information that the musician must try to compensate for. Traditional Music-Notation-Perfromance analysis must deal with Communication and 'Articulation to be performatively relevant. This makes the epistemological aspects more important than the ontological ones that dominate textualism in Western music theory. Musical notation is a system of ontological elements with a potential for meaning formation in a cultural context. It follows that notation is not an ahistorical quantity or practice. Its potential, for the transfer of knowledge beyond current situations, is related to various elements and areas of knowledge that cannot be deduced from notation itself.
