Эстетические и композиционные основания декламационного-мелодического речитативного стиля оперы С. Барбера «Ванесса».

Guo Qianping

doi:10.31723/2524-0447-2017-25-361-373

Guo Qianping Odessa National A. V. Nezhdanova Academy of Music. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7601-4981

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31723/2524-0447-2017-25-361-373

Keywords: opera composition, declamatory recitative, melodic recitative, expressiveness, narrativity, style, S. Barber's work.

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to identify and substantiate the principles of vocal language, features of vocal intonation in S. Barber's opera «Vanessa». The methodology of the work is formed by genre-compositional and stylistic approaches, includes aesthetic typological positions. The scientific novelty of the research is due to the sequential analysis and semantic typology of the content of S. Barber's opera «Vanessa», the rationale for the style-forming role of an opera recitative with its specific declamatory and melodic sides. Conclusions. This article allows detecting the main author's genre innovation by S. Barber in the opera recitative style, as well as revealing the complex figurative play of characters, the psychological depth of opera actant characteristics as due to the methods of vocal-recitative intonation.
Keywords: opera composition, declamatory recitative, melodic recitative, expressiveness, narrativity, style, S. Barber's work.

Author Biography

Guo Qianping, Odessa National A. V. Nezhdanova Academy of Music.

Guo Qianping, applicant of the Department of Music History and musical ethnography ONMA them. A. V. Nezhdanova

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Aesthetic and compositional foundations of the declamatory-melodic recitative style of S. Barber’s opera «Vanessa»