Concepts of "Alien", "Others" and "Different" in opera music of the 19-20th centuries: distinctive features and ways of expression
Various models of reflection of public space revealed in concepts "Alien", "Others" and "Different" are examined based on the example of music of the 19-20th centuries. The main objective of this study is to identify the distinctive features and means of musical expressiveness of each of the concepts. The study is carried out using a method of the musicological analysis and methods of hermeneutics and comparativistics. Various examples of spatial comparisons of “Familiar”/”Alien” in domestic music of the 19-20th centuries are given to show the distinction of meanings and techniques of the organization of musical material and to explore the mechanisms of emergence of the additional musical contexts caused by sociocultural realities of time. It is proved that the embeddedness of the Russian culture in the European one from the time of government reforms of Peter I allows us to designate all the phenomena introduced from the West by a concept of "Others" since having common roots, they show essential distinctions (e.g., Orthodox and Catholic Christianity). At the same time, owing to really existing intonational, composite and other differences of manifestations of art consciousness and thinking, various embodiments of the East (domestic and foreign) are called "Different". Systematization in space of the phenomena from area of content of musical art and expansion of empirical base of the description of an image of the person in music through spatial distances provide new opportunities for performing interpretations of works. It is concluded that all images associated with death and the embodiment of the other world and evil spirit are alien to the most human life and the person and they can be referred to the embodiment of a concept "Alien".