Ariadne's Weaving in the Musical-Visual Field

• Authors: Milica Aleksić

Abstracts

EN

Recognition and reflection of the radially structured semantic intertextual raster in the opera Ariadne auf Naxos Op. 60 by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, are the goals of this paper, with the awareness that ‘reading’ of this complex textual amalgam cannot be comprehensive and that this is only one of the possible ways of looking at different languages, their texts, and relationships in which they come in, with the emphasis on the connection between the music and architectural texts. The focus is to spot some of the paths in this specific music-scenic maze. The recognition of the ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ opera house implies the withdrawal of the parallels between the music-dramatic and the architectural level. The concept of ‘opera within the opera’ is simultaneously present in the musical-dramatic sphere (opera Ariadne in opera Ariadne auf Naxos) and in the architectural sphere (opera/residential house in the opera house). By concurring with the different meaning of the word ‘opera’ which it has in the music-drama (opera as a musical-drama work) and architectural language (opera as an architectural object), we carry out the terms meta-opera ‘per square’ (‘metaopera2’) and meta-opera ‘per cube’ (‘metaopera3’).

Keywords

EN

Ariadne auf Naxos; metaopera; intertextuality; music; architecture; labyrinth

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Koło Naukowe Studentów Muzykologii UJ
• Journal: Kwartalnik Młodych Muzykologów UJ
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 3(50) ENG
• Pages: 5-41

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Milica Aleksić

• University of Arts in Belgrade

• https://orcid.org/0000000334092305

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Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/23537094KMMUJ.21.005.16099

Biblioteka Nauki

2178363