What is the meaningfulness of music?

We have to talk so much about the meaningfulness of music in a screen work only because there is a widespread opinion among self-important television and film professionals that music brings nothing to the screen except emotional charge and its further transcription through human transcription service. The classic refutation of these erroneous views is, as always, to be found in history. According to the testimony of an English film theorist, the music written for the film by the composer made a particularly emotional impression on audiences with a German musical culture in Austria, Germany, parts of Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

"The emotional effect of Maisel's music was so great that its performance was forbidden in some countries where it was allowed to be shown," a witness wrote. "The reason for the outburst of emotions in the audience was that those sitting in the hall heard in the musical accompaniment of the film a reminder of events, a call to revolution that was contemporary and consonant with their moods and actuality."

The composer consciously used in his work for the film intonations and turns of music and songs from revolutionary Germany of those years. Here is a clear manifestation of the content of the musical work and the complete absence of words. Try to disagree with which refutes the claims of such theorists that "the lot of music - only feelings. Understanding the content of music written for the screen, and its semantic role is very, very fundamental, because behind this quality is one of the most important techniques of its use in the screen works.

Music is capable of being not only a background, not only a form element, a sound shell of a film or broadcast, but also of participating in the creation of the main content of the work. Thanks to the ability of the audience to easily relate as separate independent sounds. to a specific action or content in the image, we are entitled to assert its important role in the dramaturgical construction of the work. And now for the indisputable, the obvious role of music on the screen.

Without a doubt, music always adds emotional coloring to a work. This can range from the weightless sensation of a flight of flaming love to the experience of fierce hatred. What have we learned from a century of cinematic experience and half a century of incessant trial and error on television?