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Journal Article
Meanings of Songs and Meanings of Song Performances
2013
Overview
Distinct performances of the same song can mean very different things. Yet the meaning of the song may be fixed. Gracyk's immediate purpose is to show how the interplay of semantics and pragmatics generates different meanings in different performances. Context-dependent aspects of a song's meaning should not be confused with context-dependent aspects of a performance's meaning. Gracyk's more general purpose is to advance our understanding of musical meaning. Musical performances are rich in meaning because semantic information, contingently associated with a musical structure, generates myriad possibilities for generating pragmatic contextual supplementation of the work during its performances.
