Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Clichés of the Soviet Ideology in the Praising Compositions by D. Shostakovich

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Clichés of the Soviet Ideology in the Praising Compositions by D. Shostakovich

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Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2015 8 (3)
Authors: Naiko, Natalya M.
Contact information: Naiko, Natalya M.:Krasnoyarsk State Academy of Music and Theatre 22 Lenin Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russia; E-mail:
Keywords: Shostakovich; oratorio “The Song of the Forests”; cantata “The Sun Shines over Our Motherland”; musical rhetorical figures of the Soviet Russia
Abstract: The oratorio “The Song of the Forests” and the cantata “The Sun Shines over Our Motherland” were created by D. Shostakovich due to “social services commissioning”. In the verses by E. Dolmatovsky there is high concentration of clichés endowed with the propagandistic function. In the same way that the official state language approves a set of speech patterns or clichés, in music a special intonation vocabulary is formed. Its basis are typified musical momentum that model the speaker’s tone as well as some genre signs that reflect the spirit of the age, representing the ideological principles. In the both compositions Shostakovich used the complex of regulations that were enshrined in the national musical practice of intonation patterns of that period of time, marked by the communist ideology. At that, the elements of the genre model of march, fanfare formulas, etc. display the ability to function separately or in combination with the other elements of the genre models. Connection of the number of typified melodic, rhythmic and textural formulas with a certain range of values, ideas and images in their autonomy and mobility indicates their similarity with the rhetorical decorations – the rhetorical figures. The rhetorical figures, studied in the article differ in their genesis and immediacy of the emotional impact. With that, their joint moments are: communicative orientation and the ability to influence the minds of people, the task of formation of the feeling of belonging to a particular social community, the function of involvement of the audience in a general emotional state and infusion of a sense of pride. The method of composition, based on the principle of combining the elements of the propagandist-agitator’s phrase book, bears evidence of creative emancipation of the author and absence of clichés in his consciousness
Pages: 414-428
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/16728

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