Abstract
«Pictures at an Exhibition» by Modest Mussorgsky: the correlation of melos and colourfulness
Highlights
The “melos” and “colourfulness” terms are used in various meanings both, in music and fine arts
The consistent movement of sounds in a piece of music is called “a line” that gives the reason to see a certain parallel between music and painting
In musical science there is no well-established definition of this concept, we find such attempts: “Colourfulness [in original –’kolorit’ – translator’s note] in music – is the predominant emotional colouring of one or another episode, which is achieved by using various registers, tones, harmonic and other expressive means”
Summary
The “melos” and “colourfulness” terms are used in various meanings both, in music and fine arts. The ambiguity of these concepts in our time of unlimited possibilities for creative experiment and bold search for new semantic levels, interest in establishing versatile inter-scientific relations allows us to apply innovative analytic methods to the works of art. Among these methods, intermedial inter-disciplinary researches seem to be extremely promising, especially when applied to such traditional, well-established forms of art as academic painting and music. The concept of “melos” in music correlates with the concept of “linearity” (graphics) of a picture
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