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Volume 35, Number 3, pages 343-346 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2024_3_343
WAGNER'S MUSIC IN THE FILMS OF WERNER HERZOG AS A FACTOR OF TRANSLATIONAL SYMMETRY
Maria Nevidimova
Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, 125009, Russia.
Email: nagy.mate@uni-sopron.hu
Abstract: Some researchers have noted that the very organisation of the mythopoeic chronotope of Wagnerian dramas turns out to be related to the space-time continuum, which would later be realised in film dramas. This application examines a new aspect concerning the influence of Wagnerian music on the audiovisual and semantic structure of film. The research proceeds from the distinctive properties of Wagnerian musical drama, based, architectonically, on a varied repetition of a set of leitmotifs, which form a "discrete ostinato" within the principle of translational symmetry. Our goal is to consider ways to embody this principle of symmetry in those films by German director Werner Herzog, where Wagner's music has frequently been selected. The choice of this material is due to the following factors.
Keywords: Translational symmetry, audiolexeme, videolexeme
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