Representación y significación detrás de la pasión: una exploración semiótica a través de los tópicos en la música de Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky

Bertrand Wilfredo Valenzuela Rocha

doi:10.62230/antec.v9i2.291

Authors

Bertrand Wilfredo Valenzuela Rocha Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Universidad Nacional de Música https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3440-4615

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62230/antec.v9i2.291

Keywords:

Musical Semiotics, Musical Topics, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian Romanticism, Musical Signification

Abstract

This article explores the application of musical semiotics to the work of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, framing his music as a system of signs imbued with cultural, affective, and symbolic meanings. Building on the theoretical frameworks of Leonard Ratner, focused on musical topics and the rhetoric of Classicism; Kofi Agawu, who integrates structural semiotics, hermeneutics, and discourse analysis; and Raymond Monelle, whose work addresses the cultural, historical, and narrative dimensions of musical signs, the study demonstrates how symbolic elements shape core aspects of the composer’s style, including motivic and melodic design, harmonic discourse, and formal structure. This perspective positions Tchaikovsky’s music as a form of aesthetic and symbolic communication in dialogue with the imaginaries of Russian and European Romanticism, offering new readings of its expressive and cultural signification.

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Author Biography

Bertrand Wilfredo Valenzuela Rocha, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Universidad Nacional de Música

The author is a composer and conductor. He holds a degree in Composition from the National University of Music (UNM) and a master's degree in Art History and Curatorship from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). He is a tenured professor in the Music Department of the Faculty of Performing Arts at PUCP and teaches theoretical courses at the National University of Music. He was the founding principal conductor of the PUCP Symphony Orchestra and has conducted the National Symphony Orchestra, the Bicentennial Youth Symphony Orchestra, and the UNM Symphony Orchestra on numerous occasions. His research interests include musical iconography, semiotics, and artistic research, and he has conducted various projects that have led him to participate in important conferences in Argentina, Brazil, and Spain.

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