Сибирский федеральный университет

Тип публикации: статья из журнала

Год издания: 2022

Идентификатор DOI: 10.17516/1997-1370-0941

Ключевые слова: intonation, leitmotif, libretto, musical sign, opera, semiotic system

Аннотация: The article is devoted to a detailed description of Richard Wagner’s musical language as a complex semiotic system which combines music and verbal language. The authors apply a multimodal analytic approach to study the semiotic nature of the libretto and musical score of the opera tetralogy “The Ring of the Nibelung” (“Der Ring des Nibelungen”), one of the key works of the German composer. Linguo-semiotic analysis of monologues, dialogues, polylogues and the author’s remarks forming the libretto made it possible to characterize it as a semiotic space of interaction of verbal and non-verbal signs, as well as signs of a mixed nature, and to specify linguistic means of their realization. The music of Wagner’s work as a semiotic system is based on the principle of leitmotif development elaborated by the composer, the leitmotif being the dominant semiotic construct. The leitmotif in the article is understood as a relatively short musical configuration, which is repeated many times throughout the musical work and serves as a characteristic of a certain person, object, phenomenon, emotion or abstract concept. The text analysis of the musical score of the tetralogy “The Ring of the Nibelung” allowed the authors to identify the signs represented by various musical leitmotifs that describe specific characters, express their feelings, physical and emotional states, reflect the interaction of characters, determine the complex symbolic, mythological and ritual context of the operas of the cycle. In addition, it was noted that in the musical score the composer uses the techniques of intonational dramaturgy associated with changing leitmotif signs in the structural-semiotic aspect, highlighting the dramatic development presupposed by the libretto line. © Siberian Federal University. All rights reserved.

Журнал: Journal of Siberian Federal University - Humanities and Social Sciences

Выпуск журнала: Vol. 15, Is. 11

Номера страниц: 1619-1636

ISSN журнала: 19971370

Издатель: Siberian Federal University

• Modestov F.A. (Mozarteum University, Salzburg, Austria)
• Kulikova L.V. (Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation)
• Popova I.V. (Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation)

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