Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2014 7 (1)

Authors

Naiko, Natalia M.

Contact information

Naiko, Natalia M.:Krasnoyarsk State Academy of Music and Theatre 22 Lenin Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660049 Russia;E-mail:

Keywords

Shostakovich; the poetics of the parable in the instrumental music; event in the music parable; Quartet No. 11; Quartet No. 15; Symphony No. 9; Preludes Op.34; Prelude E-dur Op. 87

Abstract

The paper shows the effect of genre features of the parable in instrumental works by Shostakovich. Parable poetics meets the desire of the composer to the philosophical understanding of life. Signs of the parable narrative are most clearly represented in the Preludes No. 4 and No. 22 Op.34, Preludes No. 4 and No. 9 Op.87, Quartets No. 11 and No. 15, the Symphony No. 9, which reveal the commonality of musical means. The fact that the principality of the parable shows itself in works created at different times and belonging to different genres, points to its regularity and organicity for the composer’s artistic thinking. The narrative nature of the genre reveals in music through the synthesis of folk-song and speech intonations that characterize the narrator. Thanks to the framing sections acting as the introduction and conclusion, the narrator’s chronotope is separated from the events’ chronotope. Characteristics of the “actors» are the most conventional and concise, carried out by means of genre and stylistic models. The main event, peculiar to the genre of parable, is the discovery of the ultimate reality, the transcending experience. Analyzed Shostakovich’s works in a conditional sound form reflect a moment of spiritual insight. Fundamental role is played here by the harmonic and textural means acquiring the function of a sign. In general, in the analyzed works there is a high concentration of musical symbols. They occur at different levels: composition, headings of parts, thematic inventions, texture, harmony and instrumentation. In light of the genre of the parable a common argument about intelligence of Shostakovich’s music takes different meaning. This intelligence is not the result of rationalism. It is caused by sensitivity and honesty of the artist, who is devoted to comprehend the deepest mysteries of life and inspired by a timeless scale of values

Pages

59-73

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/10181

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