The dramaturgical role of A.G. Schnittke's tango in the film music for the historical drama «Agony» E.G. Klimova
Abstract
A significant part of A.G. Schnittke's creative legacy is film music. Throughout virtually his entire life, the composer worked in the field of film art – he created scores for feature, television, animated, chronicle and documentary films. From a wide list of works, the twopart historical and psychological drama «Agony» directed by E.G. Klimov was chosen for the article. The musical leit-symbol of the feature film is the tango genre as an acute expressor of the atmosphere of the epoch of historical and social catastrophes. A comparison of the film score of the tango, i.e. the author's «matrix» of the idea and the phonogram aimed at showing the rapidly perishing Russian Empire and the contradictory image of Rasputin, reveals significant semantic discrepancies. The composer's invariant is a carrier of transcendental meanings, revealed through the semantics of timbre variations on the theme of the tango ostinato. In the director's interpretation, the discourse of soullessness and powerlessness of power, the collapse of human destinies became the main one, as a result of which the negative and mystical-fatal properties of the genre were revealed in the interpretation of the tango phonogram through a denunciatory-critical approach.
About the Author
A. A. Sushlyakova
M.I. Glinka Novosibirsk State Conservatory
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Asya A.Sushlyakova, postgraduate, (scientific supervisor – Cand. Sc. (Art Criticism), Full Professor G.A. Eremenko)
Novosibirsk, 630099
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Sushlyakova A.A. The dramaturgical role of A.G. Schnittke's tango in the film music for the historical drama «Agony» E.G. Klimova. ARTE. 2024;(4):68-75. (In Russ.)
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