Musical culture of screen direction

  • Galyna Pogrebnіak National Academy of Management of Culture and Arts
Keywords: musical art, composer practices, screen arts, director's creativity, musical image, symphonic music, composer technologies.

Abstract

The article examines the phenomenon of music in audiovisual art. The work of Ennio Morricone in world cinema is analyzed. This approach made it possible to deeply reveal the role of music in the screen arts and to show the peculiarities of the collaboration between the director and the composer. Signs of collective authorship in the screen arts have been identified, which provoked the emergence of creative tandems, a director-composer. In addition, the director's creativity was studied in the context of the composer's practices of creating music for audiovisual art. Composer practices of Ennio Morricone in different directorial models are analyzed. The main features of the author's style of the composer are revealed, his innovative approaches in creating music for the screen and symphonic music are revealed. The experimental music of a prominent composer is characterized. The main techniques of E. Morricone's tonal music are singled out and the specifics of the use of musical instruments in the artist's scores are clarified. The artist's use of various composing technologies is analyzed. It is substantiated that the composer tried to reform film music and modern music in general. The composer's unique ability to work in a cinematographic production team has been proven. It is shown that sometimes the screen music of the maestro became more popular than the films for which it was written.

  In the development of the topic, the methods of scientific analysis, comparison, and generalization were comprehensively applied. Analytical and systematic methods in their unity were involved to consider the art-historical aspect of the problem.

As a result, the specifics of the use of musical means in screen arts are determined through the study of creative models of the director and composer, the relevance of using the systematic method in studying the peculiarities of composers' creativity in the context of audiovisual art and production is proven.

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Published
2023-12-26
Section
MUSICOLOGICAL STUDIES