RICARDO NOGUEIRA DE CASTRO MONTEIRO 1 Chopin’s Ballade in G minor Op. 23 in the Ballet Kameliendame, by John Neumeier: Intertextual and Intersemiotic Relations and their Role in the Process of the Generation of Meaning 1 Ricardo Nogueira de Castro Monteiro Te present article proposes methodological principles for a semiotic approach to syncretic texts, focusing on the homologies established be- tween categories of expression and content. Such a methodology is based upon the fact that certain aspects of symmetry that organize the plane of expression are often homologated to categories of content, thus generat- ing relationships that organize the diferent languages of the syncretic text and are at the same time partially responsible for the efects of meaning of its coherence and cohesion. Tose superfcial oppositions in the categories of expression, being homologated with other oppositions of growing lev- els of invariance on the plane of content, allow a most interesting and pro- ductive analytical approach to the study of meaning in syncretic contexts. Tis methodology seems to shed light on two most interesting ques- tions. Te frst is to ask how the efect of meaning of one single syncretic enunciation is created – thus avoiding, for example, the efect of one musi- cal enunciation and one visual enunciation that happen to be simultane- ous, but that do not necessarily constitute a unity. Te second is to ask how the suspension of the homologies between categories of content and expression (the Hjelmslevian defnition of “syncretism”) afects that sense of unity and the meaning of the text as a whole. 1 Te present research was accomplished with the support of FAPESP – Te State of São Paulo Research Foundation (http://www.fapesp.br).