Images of Nostalgia in Mykola Lysenko's Opera "Nocturne"
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31318/0130-5298.2024.50.349624Keywords:
nostalgia, nostalgic, modernism, opera «Nocturne», M. Lysenko creativityAbstract
Relevance of research. The subject of the study in the article is nostalgia, as one of the features of the modernism era of the late XIX - early XX century. The material for analysis is the selected work of M. Lysenko "Nocturne".
Main objective of the study – to analyze the musical material of the opera, the libretto, the heroes of the opera and to identify nostalgia in it.
Methodology of research. The images of the heroes of the opera, features of the embodiment of specific characters through their musical characteristics are considered. The connection of the whole work with the help of waltz, which permeates the entire work and is an important feature of the opera, is revealed. Also the connection of all fantastic characters, the commonality of their figurative characteristics is emphasized.
Main findings of the study. Opera by M. Lysenko "Nocturne" is a vivid example of the chamber genre and the incarnation of nostrils in it. The main signs of nostalgia in Lysenko's opera are the first – this is the most reproduced day – past noble times, which Lysenko himself remembered, because he was of noble origin. The second one is the flair that penetrates the entire work and is reproduced in the parties of Tsvirkun and Tsvirkenny, Panny and Officer. Waltz was a kind of "code" of the past, XIX century. The third – the image of the Bacchante - a mythological image, known from ancient Greece, emphasizes not only nostalgic features, but also modernist ones. The presence of Bacchante in the opera Nocturne speaks of the features of neoclassicism in the work. Fourth – the reproduction of the ancient salmon-noble musical life (romance, love aria, melancholy waltz) in the parties of Panny and Officer. Fifth, the name of the opera is "Nocturne" – Lysenko reproduces the association from the XIX century as a nocturne, a genre that was redefined in the era of romanticism, as a solo instrumental play of lyrical character before all in the work of J. Fiddle, F. Chopin, F. List. Sixth – the atmosphere of the whole work, gentle, melancholic, nostalgic and very elegant, simple musical language, fantastic images involuntarily cause a sense of nostalgia for the past, even to a contemporary listener, a past we personally did not know
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