Kristina Perevozchikova

Concerto for Conductor and Orchestra by Nino Rota and Federico Fellini: Rehearsal of the Apocalypse

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DOI 10.34690/96

Author Kristina V. Perevozchikova

Affiliation Voronezh State Institute of Arts, Voronezh, Russia

Email kris.perevozchikova@yandex.ru

ORCID

0000-0001-6063-3115

Abstract

The famous film by Federico Fellini with music by Nino Rota symbolically expresses—through the fate of musicians—the idea of catastrophic impoverishment of a human soul which inevitably leads the society to the Apocalypse. The film is based on the principles of a concerto sonata form and has a certain musical and cinematic dramaturgy which helps the comprehension of deep philosophical meaning laid down by the great director. Nino Rota’s musical score which consists of orchestral fragments, sounds, and clusters, accurately conveys Fellini’s concept, while maintaining its own semantic.

For citation

Perevozchikova, K. “Concerto for conductor and orchestra by Nino Rota and Federico Fellini: Rehearsal of the Apocalypse.” Muzykal’naya akademiya [Music Academy], no. 3, 2020, pp. 196–205, doi:10.34690/96. (In Russ.)