RELIGIOUS EPIGRAPH IN THE INSTRUMENTAL OPUS: ON THE RELATION OF VERBAL AND MUSICAL TEXTS

Abstract

The main subjects of this article were texts of religious themes, somehow present in the score of composers in the form of an unpronounceable text (epigraph). It is noted that an unpronounceable verbal text can be invented by a composer or taken from a literary source (a prose or poetic work of a religious orientation). As a proof are given musical opuses by F. Liszt, O. Messiaen, A. Knaifel, A. Karamanov, S. Gubaidulina and several other authors are given. The article is based on an integrated approach to the study of religious texts in the score of composers of diff erent centuries, belonging to diff erent styles and epochs. Therefore, in addition to the analytical method that characterizes the consideration of individual works, a context-historical method is used. But still the main attention is paid to composers of the twentieth century — it is at this time created that the greatest number of works with epigraphs of religious content appears, which is dictated by the special position of the twentieth century with regard to negative events and emotions.