UDC

782

Authors

Sedova Tatyana Aleksandrovna
Postgraduate Student, Rostropovich Orenburg State Institute of Arts (Orenburg, Russia)

Abstract

Semantic potential of tonality continues to be relevant in contemporary musicology. The author considers one of the issues of this broad topic. The paper dwells on the imaginative-semantic meaning of some keys in Sergey Rachmaninoff’s opera The Miserly Knight. D major, D minor, E minor, E flat major and, partly, C minor were semantically important keys for Rachmaninoff in this opera. We can see that their image-bearing interpretations are similar to those of the keys in other Rachmaninoff’s pieces. Such keys’ belonging to a certain imaginative sphere allows us to underline their semantic significance in Rachmaninoff’s works. The paper can be recommended to musicologists and other specialists interested in tonality semantics.

Keywords

Rachmaninoff, opera, The Miserly Knight, imaginative meaning of keys

References

1. Prokof’ev S.S. Dnevnik. V 3-kh ch. Ch.1. 1907–1918 [Diary. In 3 parts. Part 1. 1907–1918]. Paris, 2002. 814 p. 
2. Rassadin S.B. Dramaturg Pushkin: Poetika. Idei. Evolyutsiya [Playwright Pushkin: Poetics. Ideas. Evolution]. Moscow, 1977. 359 p. 
3. Rachmaninoff S. Rachmaninoff’s Recollections: Told to Oskar Von Riesemann. Macmillan, 1934 (Russ. ed. Rakhmaninov S.V. Vospominaniya, zapisannye Oskarom fon Rizemanom. Moscow, 1992. 256 p.).