The Category of Irrational Fear in the Romantic Horror Ballad

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Olga V. Begicheva

Abstract

The article discusses the topic of semiosis of fear in the musical ballad of the era of Romanticism. Among the basic issues disclosed are the musical ballad complex of «catastrophism» and the ballad chronotope. Special attention is given to analysis of the cause for such an extraordinary popularity of the theme of fear

in Romanticist art. The author cites as examples for her research Robert Schumann’s “Ballade von Heideknaben” set to the text of Christian Friedrich Hebbel and Franz Schubert’s “Der Erlkönig” set to the text of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as well as compositions of Liszt, Grieg, Wagner, Frank, Respighi and others.

Keywords: romantic ballad, semiosis of the theme of fear, catastrophism, ballad chronotope

 

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Begicheva, O. V. (2012). The Category of Irrational Fear in the Romantic Horror Ballad. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 11(2), 47–50. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/352
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Musical Genre and Style
Author Biography

Olga V. Begicheva, Volgograd State Institute of the Arts and Culture

PhD and associate Professor of history and theory of music Department