The Artistic Model of Culture in Richard Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg”

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Olga M. Plotnikova

Abstract

The development of the conception of “model of culture”
is topical in various spheres of scholarly knowledge.
A reconstruction of Richard Wagner’s artistic “model of culture”
on the example of a historical-realist comedy music drama
“Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg” demonstrates its innovative
solution in the context of the composer’s musical style. The
culturological analysis highlights the predominating aspects
of cultural and historical phenomena, events and processes
imprinted in the musical text of a composition. A systemic
culturological method makes it possible to disclose in the opera
an integral picture of functioning of a national model of artistic
culture and education. The core of the “model of culture” of
Wagner’s artifact is presented by the demonstration of the
mechanism of activity in regards to its creation – the arteact.
The composer’s artistic “model of culture” demonstrates itself
as a local, innovational, industrial, semantic-syntactical and cofigurative.
The mono-cultural model created by the reformer
of musical theater in the context of the problem of search of a
cultural universalization may be viewed as an artistic “universal
model of culture.”

Keywords: Richard Wagner, music drama, Die Meistersinger
von Nurnburg, artistic model of culture

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How to Cite
Plotnikova, O. M. (2014). The Artistic Model of Culture in Richard Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg”. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (2), 88–92. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/99
Section
Music in the System of Culture
Author Biography

Olga M. Plotnikova, Magnitogorsk State M.I. Glinka Conservatory

Candidate of Arts (PhD),
Associate Professor at the Music Theory
and Music History Department

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