Open Access“Das Donauweibchen”, “Dneprovskaya Rusalka” and “The Magic Flute”: the Facets of Intertextual and Archetypal
Author(s) -
Natalia I. Verba
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
observatoriâ kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2588-0047
pISSN - 2072-3156
DOI - 10.25281/2072-3156-2015-0-5-38-44
Subject(s) - flute , musical , magic (telescope) , art , dramaturgy , literature , archetype , art history , physics , quantum mechanics
The article is devoted to consideration of the ways of musical realization of the archetypal images in the operas “Das Donauweibchen”, “Dneprovskaya Rusalka” and “The Magic Flute”. The analysis lays an emphasis on the following aspects: the dramaturgy, orchestration, general compositional principles, ideological and semantic constants of the operas, their intonation sphere, and peculiarities of the characters’ musical and verbal portraits. The comparison of the main heroes’ characteristics in the operas by F. Kauer, S. I. Davydov and W. A. Mozart allows to draw a conclusion that the developed intertextual connections between these works are caused by the studied images’ archetypicalness.