A narrative grammar of Chopin's G minor Ballade

A new semiotic model for the generation of musical texts is introduced in this article. The idea of a generative grammar is here understood in the sense of the generative trajectory, a model elaborated by A. J. Greimas. Four levels are chosen from his trajectory for the study of musical texts, namely, those of isotopies, spatial, temporal and actorial categories, modalities and semes or figures.As an illustration, the G minor Ballade by Fr. Chopin has been examined through all these levels. The most formalized aspect of the analysis is constituted by what has been called a modal grammar of the piece (the term modality understood here in its philosophico-linguistic sense). The analysis tries to show how the musical form emerges from its inner processual traits, kinetic, epistemic and other aspects of a modal nature. It thus approaches for instance the problem of segmentation from the processual and dynamic nature of musical works. Moreover, the analysis is also an attempt to study the narrativity in music, since the narrative content of a piece like Chopin's G minor Ballade is clearly seen as the result of its modal processes.     

Artist Space

Abstract

This paper addresses the process of patterning reconfigurable video narrative using architectural theory, through a case-study of practice-based research on the interactive, reconfigurable small-screen movie Gormenghast Explore. It focuses on the topography of cinematic narrative as architectural construction, refashioning Kevin Lynch's urban categories and Christian Norberg-Schulz's concept of place to support a design ontology for dramatic fictive narrativity. This architectural framework provides an effective representation for both navigable narrative content and 3D environment and interface.     

运河古地图叙事元素提取与艺境建构

目的 通过对运河古地图的绘制特点、历史演变和典型作品资料的梳理和分析,挖掘运河古地图自身的文化价值,并探寻如何通过叙事性设计理念使得再设计后的地图既能呈现出运河古地图的艺术境界,又能以叙事的手法传播大运河沿线的文化信息.方法 从构图、文本、场景和色彩四个方面对运河古地图中的时空元素、事件元素、符号元素和情感元素进行提取和归纳,深度剖析其叙事特征的呈现方式,并以诗歌的三个境界,即物境、情境和意境为切入点,探讨运河古地图叙事性艺境建构的关联与方法.结论 运用叙事性艺境建构方法设计后的创意地图,能巧妙地对大运河传统文化进行艺术提炼,还能有效提升创意地图的可读性,对传承大运河文化带优秀传统文化提供新视角.