SPECIFICITY OF PICTURE CONTENT AND MUSICAL INTONATION IN THE WORKS OF O. MESSIAN: FACTORS OF POLISEMANCY

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to identify the figurative and artistic-expressive prerequisites of the musical-intonational originality of O. Messiaen’s musical works, to reveal the foundations of the “polyphony of meanings” created by him as a consequence of the implementation of the composer’s method. The methodology of the work involves the use of the traditional musicological genre-stylistic approach and the extended art historical textological method. Basic theoretical positions are created for the development of musical-narrative analysis as a necessary component of the axiological characteristics of Messiaen’s poetics. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the reproduction of Messiaen’s original author’s intonation, the discovery of the specifics of his understanding of programmaticity as the initial syncretic quality of musical sound, and the proof of the composer’s attitude to musical sound as one of the components of a holistic and indivisible image of the world, which is formed and operates in a purely immanent personal way, being externally oriented, arises on ideal-phenomenological principles, that is, it is an intentional subject. Conclusions. Trying to imagine for the addressee the natural world depicted by him in the composition, Messiaen created his own spatial-sound continuum in the musical text, closely connected with the color scheme and fantastic images. By relying on certain color and rhythmic standards, synesthetic perceptions and feelings understandable to the musician, using a system of authorial notations, including conventionally programmatic instructions, as well as appealing to basic, archetypal ideal aspirations and needs for each person, symbolic representations, the composer adds to the subject-semantic sphere of music new ways of forming and translating figurative content, creates new aesthetic tasks for performing understanding and intonation, as well as new conditions and qualities of perception-exteriorization for listeners.