Towards a Dialogical Musical Polyphony: Contributions from Solo Singing Performance

We retrieve in this paper Bakhtin’s definition of polyphony to, firstly, seek its roots in music and then demonstrate how the literary meaning of the term can contribute to the study of contemporary concert music in new understandings of its polyphonic dimension. To this end, in addition to Bakhtin’...

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Autores: Gomes, Juliana Araújo, Teixeira, William
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
Repositorio:Bakhtiniana
Idioma:portugués
inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/66859
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/article/view/66859
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Polifonia
Música
Canto
Performance musical
Música contemporânea
Polyphony
Music
Singing
Musical performance
Contemporary music
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Sumario:We retrieve in this paper Bakhtin’s definition of polyphony to, firstly, seek its roots in music and then demonstrate how the literary meaning of the term can contribute to the study of contemporary concert music in new understandings of its polyphonic dimension. To this end, in addition to Bakhtin’s Circle writings, we reference academic literature on the concept, both in the areas of literary theory and musicology. For this conceptual expansion, we propose three polyphonic strategies applied to the solo vocal repertoire: 1) the multiplicity of texts, 2) the multiplicity of roles, and 3) the multiplicity of actions. Through this path, the article results not only in the densification of the components that form the concept of polyphony, but also in a performance approach capable of being applied in musical practices.