La estructura profunda: mecanismo generativo compartido por música y lenguaje. Aplicación de la gramática generativa de la música en “Fandangoneitor”

Abstract

this work uses some of the analytical tools propounded by Fred Lerdahl reknowned music professor and Ray Jackendoff famous linguistic from the MIT, extracted from the theory of the Generative Grammar set forth by famous thinker Noam Chomsky. Utilizing reduction and grouping techniques, this analysis is focused on the piece “Fandangoneitor”, written for Clarinet solo and Clarinet ensamble by the colombian composer and clarinetist Jorge Andres Velez Ospina and; this work aims to find the overlying Deep structure to the piece, by detaching it into three different syntactic levels. The analytic proposal introduced in this paper is based on an intuition about the existence of a complex relationship between music and language, namely the equivalence among the cognitive mechanisms that perform this processes in the brain. Starting off from this ground, this analysis puts forward concepts, categories and processes that when applied on music, attempt to disclose the basic structural components of the piece by elaborating a personal interpretation of the Generative Grammar expounded in the linguistic fields.