MUSICAL WORLD. PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

The article introduces the concept of musical world in the phenomenological sense. Any world has a direct relation to the subject, as well as the subject to the world. There can be a physical world, but also a world of people, a mental world, and a musical world. At the same time the subject both lives in its world and carries its world within itself. The act of any understanding, including musical understanding, is realized through the world and by means of the world. The structure of any world includes the given, the non-given and the values. An analysis of the structures of the musical world is offered. They are not musical pieces, but musical ideas, musical meanings. The unit of musical meaning is the museme. Examples of museme are harmony, motif, melody, rhythm. The values of the musical world are specifically musical, such as preferred harmonies, intervals. Two types of musical worlds are described: the seconds-dominated and the tercets/quarts-dominated, resulting in very different kinds of music. In addition, an important characteristic of the musical world is conflict and dynamism. They are juxtaposed with the nature of Western thinking. The question is raised how the subject’s musical world can influence the worlds of his relationships, thinking, etc.