Emotional and expressive function of cinema music: Communicative aspect

Abstract

It is difficult to overestimate the significance and the role of film music, and they are determined primarily by the emotionally expressive function of cinema. The unity of audio and visual means works to enhance the emotional effect, in the limit − the “cathartic” effect. The expressive means of cinema are designed to provide a holistic, total perception of the film text, and within these means, music as an audiovisual synthesis occupies a very important place. Music interacts with the narrative, enriches the film and influences the audience’s interpretation. But if the basis of musical and literary synthesis is, as a rule, the so-called. “musicality” − in film music, many researchers usually see a different hierarchy: the inherent value of musical arrangement is “removed”, music is perceived as a derivative of film narrative. At the same time, views are becoming more and more popular, according to which the musical sequence of a film is a form-building element of an audiovisual dyad. The emotional function of film music is also inseparable from its communication function, because music has always been one of the important aspects of the communicative sphere.