VISUAL IMAGES IN THE LINGUISTIC INTERPRETATION OF MUSICAL IMPRESSIONS

Abstract

The article discusses features of the visual interpretation of musical impressions in artistic texts. Visual images of musical impressions are not the only way, but even a very characteristic way to describe feelings, images and thoughts that are caused by sounding music. The unity of the conceptual and linguistic component of the musical picture of the world of speakers is reflected in the texts of works of art containing a sound, visual, tactile description of the music heard. The research topic is related to visual perception, thanks to which the musical picture is presented to the author as the most “objectified”. The linguistic means of visual perception, reflecting the sounding music, contribute to the development of the “language” of music embodied in the word. The visibility of the musical picture of the surrounding world is most vividly represented by the author’s metaphors in the text. The formation and expression of musical impressions through a visual verbal series makes it possible to understand how the images of sounding music are formed in the picture of the world of speakers and how exactly the discourse about music is built in the “naive listener”.