Orchestral piece "Dispelling the Fears" by Mark-Anthony Turnage: the trial for symbolization of musical material
The article is dedicated to the work of the English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage (b. 1960), that wascreated in 1995 under the influence of surrealist paintings of a contemporary Australian artist Heather Betts. The abstract nature of this painting, done in mixed technique (oil, coal, sand, shellac and collage on canvas, 1992), inspired the composer for the one-movement composition, the essence of which can be defined as concentration and gradual weakening of anxiety and fear. Referring to the programming structure of the piece by Turnage, the author of the article combines musical and extra-musical methods of analysis. In the first case the author is interested in the evolution of the composer’s style, developing within the framework of jazz culture as well as contemporary music of the second half of the XXth - beginning of the XXI century. Extra-musical discourse brings the paper’s author to elements of phenomenological (transcendent) perception.This combination of intra- and extra-musical methods in analyzing the composer’s style is the essence of scholarly findings of the paper’s author. Not only the author’s approach to musical analysis can be referred to as«new» but the music itself: Turnage’s work «Dispelling the Fears» for two trumpets and orchestra is looked at as an object for musicological discourse for the first time in Russian research history.