Abstract:
Jan Mukařovský, the founder of structural aesthetics and a pioneer of modern semiology of art, worked as an associate professor and later professor at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava from 1930 to 1937. During this period, he wrote several seminal works, such as The Semiology of Art, Aesthetic Function (1934) and Norm and Value as Social Facts (1936). During this short period, he established working contacts with a number of prominent Slovak scholars, and greatly influenced Slovak thinking about art. Although Mukařovský did not deal directly with music, his aesthetic views directly or indirectly influenced some Slovak musicologists. His views seem to have found their most striking resonance in the theoretical work of Petr Faltin, especially in his reflections on the function of sound in musical structure and musical meaning. An indirect influence can be identified in the works of Jozef Kresánek, and it can be considered positive that both thinkers were able to creatively use and transform the stimuli coming from structural aesthetics, and the present study attempts to analyze these resonances and influences.