Theme of music in literary works

What is the basis of musical and literary works, what inspires their writers? Their images, themes, motifs, plots have common roots, they are born from the reality of the surrounding world.

And let music and literature find their expression in completely different language forms between them have much in common. The most important core of the relationship of these types of art is intonation. Affectionate, sad, joyful, anxious, solemn and excited intonations are found in literary and musical speeches.

In the combination of words and music, songs and romances are born, in which, besides verbal expression of emotions, the state of mind is transmitted through musical expression. Fret color, rhythm, melody, form, accompaniment create unique artistic images. Everyone knows that music and without words, only by combinations of sounds, is capable of causing a variety of associations and internal excitements in the listeners.

“Music takes possession of our senses before it comprehends its mind”
Romain rolland

Each of the people has his own attitude to music - for some it is a profession, for others a hobby, for the third only a pleasant background, but everyone knows about the role of this art in the life and fate of humanity.

But music, capable of subtly and excitingly expressing the state of the human soul, is still limited. With her indisputable riches on emotions, she is devoid of specifics - in order to fully see the image sent by the composer, the listener must "turn on" her fantasy. Moreover, in one sad melody, a different listener will “see” various images - an autumnal rain forest, a farewell on the platform of lovers or the tragedy of a funeral procession.

That is why, in order to gain greater visibility, this kind of art enters into symbiosis with other arts. And, most often, with literature. But is it a symbiosis? Why do authors — poets and prose writers — so often touch upon the theme of music in literary works? What gives the reader an image of music between the lines?

According to Christoph Gluck, a famous Viennese composer, “music should play the same role in relation to the poetic work as the brightness of colors plays in relation to the exact picture”. And for Stefan Mallarme, the theorist of symbolism, music is an additional volume, which gives the reader more vivid, prominent images of the realities of life.

Different languages ​​of reproduction and ways of perception of these types of art make them unlike, far from each other. But the goal, like any language, one - to bring information from one person to another. The word, first of all, is addressed to the mind and only then to the senses. But to all and it is not always possible to find a verbal description. In such full of excitement, music comes to the rescue. So she loses the word in specifics, but wins in emotional colors. Together, the word and music are almost omnipotent.

And some writers themselves composed music. Few people know that one of the most famous Russian waltzes was written by A. Griboedov, the famous author of the play “Woe from Wit” ...

The poet B. Pasternak was a close friend of A. Scriabin and himself dreamed of becoming a composer. I wonder what poetry is hidden in his piano preludes and sonatas?

The melodies “sounding” in the context of novels, stories and narratives are not included in these works by chance. They carry a wealth of information, perform certain functions:

• The musical theme as the plot core of the literary work (the theme of music in the literary works of Leo Tolstoy "Kreutzer Sonata", "After the Ball").
• The use of musical images for a more volumetric image of the psychological characteristics of literary characters ("Kreutzer Sonata" - music, as a "double" of the character)
• The author's idea of ​​the writer is based on the image of a musician, his ideas about life, music, surrounding people (as in the works “Mozart and Salieri” by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin and “Cavalier Gluck” by Theodore Amadeus Hoffmann).
• The creation of a literary work on the structure of the musical (“Mozart and Salieri” by A.S. Pushkin is structurally similar to “Requiem”, the last masterpiece of the genius composer, the poem by Athanasius Feta pleasantly resembles a romance, and some of Boris Pasternak’s musical improvisation).

The theme of music in literary works is also felt in the active use of means of creating images. Repetitions, sound writing, leitmotifs - all of this came into the literature from music.

"... the art every minute turn one into another, one kind of art finds its continuation and completion in another." Romain rolland

Thus, the image of music between the lines “animates”, adds “paint” and “volume” to one-dimensional images of the characters of the characters and the events they experience in the pages of literary works.