Guo Q. Vocal declamation as a musical-semantic phenomenon in European opera of the XIX-XX centuries

The dissertation is devoted to determining the peculiarity of the genre nature of operatic vocal declamation and its musical and poetic properties. An approach to the study of vocal declamation as an artistic-aesthetic phenomenon and type of operatic intonation is developed, based on the combination of historiographic and genre-style approaches with the addition of the textual method and some provisions of poetry. The characteristic of the musical-verbal poetics of opera is proposed as a synergistic phenomenon, which emphasizes the rhetorical features of the opera word, actualizes the interaction of verbal and musical factors of opera intonation. Studying the historical origins and directions of the development of opera declamation, their stylistic varieties in the romantic era, helps to distinguish the musical-intonational parameters of opera declamation and their differentiation according to aesthetically-semantic and compositional-stylistic features. The tendencies of development of musical and declamation foundations of romantic opera in their direction from J. Verdi to S. Barber are revealed; the aesthetic and compositional prerequisites of the declamatory-melody and declamation-recitative stylistic sphere of S. Barber's opera Vanessa are determined. Disclosure of the value of vocal declamation as a semantic mediator between chamber-vocal and opera genre forms is carried out by means of a comparative textual approach, allows to generalize the aesthetic and compositional-intonational experience of European composers from the romantic era to the present, typologize compositional and stylish and stylistic factors of operatic vocal declamation as a semantic phenomenon.