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A pragmatic conception of meaning and emotion in music
Sadílková, Alžběta ; Kolman, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Švec, Ondřej (referee)
The aim of the presented bachelor thesis is to define a possible form of pragmatic conception of musical meaning. To accomplish this goal, we work with three theoretical components, which we analyze and then layer on top of each other in such a way as to form a logical whole. The first of these components is the pragmatic maxim formulated by Charles S. Peirce, which defines the meaning of a fact as the sum of its possible practical consequences. In the field of music, we choose to identify the listener's emotions as these consequences, and thus the second of our components is John Dewey's theory through which we characterize emotions as consisting, first, of internal and external parts, and secondly as arising from a certain conflict. The third component, which we operate with in the framework of the thesis, is the application of the mentioned conflict to the phenomenon of musical expectation and the attempt to analyse it with the help of the insights of David Huron and Leonard B. Meyer. The latter also dealt with the problem of the connection between emotions, pragmatism and music. We therefore use his study as inspiration and a source of possible procedure methods and in the last stage of the paper we evaluate to what extent our conclusions regarding pragmatic conceptions of musical meaning and...
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