METAPHOR IN THE STAGE COMPOSITION "YELLOW SOUND" BY V. V. KANDINSKY AND A. G. SCHNITTKE
The article deals with the stage composition «Yellow Sound» by V. V. Kandinsky and its representation in the music of A. G. Schnittke. It reflects the principles of the artist's creative system, which are objectified at the verbal and non-verbal (by means of color and sound) levels. Word, color and sound interact throughout the stage action. Their comparison gives rise to associations with biblical stories of the Old Testament and New Testament. The connections are not stable, which leads to the actualization of the mechanism of metaphor based on a comparison of various phenomena, concepts. Turning to the texts of V. V. Kandinsky 70 years later, A. G. Schnittke «read» them in his own way: he increased the degree of abstraction, reduced the number of characters and split them into two antagonistic groups «Good - Evil». In the musical composition the composer followed the instructions given in the libretto (correspondence of the acts’ content, comparison of orchestral and choral sounding, intonation a-b pattern in 2nd part), but the influence of the modern musical language was obvious (for example, aleatoric - in 3rd part, rhythmic series - in 1st, 5th, 6th parts). «Yellow sound» by A. G. Schnittke was an experiment carried out in search of the author's style on the way to polystylistics, in which philosophical and ethical concepts were combined with avantgarde musical language.