Pushkin at the Opera: Three Cases of Musical Transposition of the Fantastic. The Power of Music on the Fantastic

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Elisabetta Fava
Music is a very constant feature of the fantastic in novels and theatrical plays; nevertheless, few studies investigate the relationship between music and the fantastic; there is no comparison with the flourishing criticism about literature. The aim of this article is to show the musical strategies of the fantastic and to explain how music creates a particularly 'fantastic code': through oddities in the harmonic development, overlapping of incompatible styles or timbres, and strange and 'abnormal' solutions also in the melodic lines. The samples I've chosen are all from Russian musical theater, written on Puškin texts almost contemporary among themselves, and show the importance and the role of music in rewriting fantastic novels as operatic plays.
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musical theatre, Puškin, Dargomyžskij, Čajkovskij, Musorgskij, dream, madness, nightmare, musical writing of fantastic

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Fava, Elisabetta. “Pushkin at the Opera: Three Cases of Musical Transposition of the Fantastic. The Power of Music on the Fantastic”. Brumal. Revista de investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2017, vol.VOL 5, no. 2, pp. 177-00, http://raco.cat/index.php/Brumal/article/view/333066.