The Сomic as Modality of Artistic Text and its Appearances in Music

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Alla G. Korobova

Abstract

The article is devoted to analytical opportunities to reveal and
characterize the comic mood in works of music. The first part of the
article is dedicated to interpretations of categories of the comic by
modern foreign and domestic musicologists. The author suggests
distinguishing the kinds (satire and humour), the forms (a parody, irony,
grotesque, burlesque) and the ways of the comic. In the second part of
article the author analyzes a number of works in which mode of comic
it is expressed only by musical means (Mozart and Beethoven’s sonatas
for piano, Shostakovich’s prelude, the piece by G. Farnaby). The analysis
shows opportunities for elucidation of the comic modality in “pure
music”, based upon the research of genre, means, syntax and ways of
composition.

Keywords: the comic, modality, artistic context, interpretation

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How to Cite
Korobova, A. G. (2009). The Сomic as Modality of Artistic Text and its Appearances in Music. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 5(2), 135–142. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/659
Section
Musical Style and Genre
Author Biography

Alla G. Korobova, Ural State Conservatory named after M. P. Mussorgsky

Doctor of Arts, Docent, Professor at the
Department of Music Theory