Between Sensibility and Intelligibility in Musical Performance: Principles for the Operationalization of Tensive Semiotics Applied to Musical Realization

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https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v12i2.36767

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musical performance, music analysis, French School Semiotics, musical semiotics

Abstract

This work discusses the relevance and viability of operationalizing theoretical-methodological tools from French school Semiotics applied to musical performance. Based on Zilberberg (2006, 2011) and Tatit (2019), basic concepts of the tensive proposal are presented, more specifically the notion of intensity (sensible) and extensiveness (intelligible) in the apprehension of discourse values. Both the epistemological basis and the methodological aspects are investigated within applications aimed at analytical perspectives in ​​musical performance, taking into account the synchronic and diachronic aspects that make up the musical enunciation. In order to provide greater analytical refinement, the benefits of using phorèmes (Zilberberg, 2011) is discussed, aiming at describing in greater detail discursive instabilities. Finally, the paper concludes that the theoretical-methodological tools presented are efficient in operationalizing the description of the dynamic and moving nature of the object and relevant to the most varied research issues within musical performance studies.

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Caio Victor de Oliveira Lemos, Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE)

Guitarist and PhD in musical performance from the Arts Institute at the State University of São Paulo (UNESP), he holds a bachelor's degree in music and a master's degree in performance from the same institution. He also studied guitar at the Municipal School of Music of São Paulo, participated in several festivals, and studied with important guitarists on the national and international scene. He performs as a soloist and chamber musician and has experience as a guitar teacher, both as private instructor and for groups. He was a substitute professor of guitar and music education at the Federal University of Cariri (UFCA) in 2019. He is currently a professor at the State University of Ceará (UECE).

Carolina Lindenberg Lemos, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

Adjunct professor in the Department of Vernacular Languages at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), she holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of São Paulo (USP), and in Langues et Lettres from the University of Liège (2015), with an international mobility grant at the University of Paris VIII (2013). She was a temporary professor in the Department of Linguistics at USP (2016), where she conducted postdoctoral research in Historiography of Linguistics (2015-2016). She was coordinator of the Graduate Program in Linguistics at UFC for the 2023-2025 biennium, editor of the journal Estudos Semióticos (USP) from 2021 to 2023, and editor of the “Chronicles” section of the journal Signata (University of Liège, ULg) from 2016 to 2021. She is currently the leader of Semioce – Semiotic Studies Group at UFC and a member of the Semiotic Studies Group at USP. She has been a CNPq Level C research productivity fellow since 2025.

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30-11-2025

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LEMOS, Caio Victor de Oliveira; LEMOS, Carolina Lindenberg. Between Sensibility and Intelligibility in Musical Performance: Principles for the Operationalization of Tensive Semiotics Applied to Musical Realization. Art Research Journal: Revista de Pesquisa em Artes, Natal, v. 12, n. 2, 2025. DOI: 10.36025/arj.v12i2.36767. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/artresearchjournal/article/view/36767. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): Multidisciplinary Perspectives in the Field of Art; Articles

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