Personal Space in Music: the “I — You” Concept in a Communication Model “Message”

The article examines the semantic sphere of “personal space” in music. The objective in this work is to identify methods of modeling of personal space of the interlocutor in the chamber and vocal composition, intended for mono performance, to delimitate this space and establish the features marking the communicative message model in music. Methods of the musicological analysis and hermeneutics were used to show that interaction of the principles of “substantive dissociation” and “existential proximity” is the basis shaping the communicative message model. As a result of the analysis of the romance “Gravestone Letter” by M. P. Mussorgsky a number of features peculiar to this model was established. Among them are the presence of the drama hero leading a narration from the first person and the virtual interlocutor — the addressee of the message, marking his personal space in the middle of composition; contrast of spaces of the hero and interlocutor; inclusion of romantic images of melancholy for a kindred spirit, homelessness of the hero, confessionary character of the statement of the hero; emergence of the new alternative image ideal replacing an image of the interlocutor that forms the “closed” semantic space in the communicative message model.