In a Dialogue with the Poet
The article devoted to questions of musical and poetic synthesis raises the issue of the relationship between the composer and the poet in its special interpretation, defined as spiritual “affinity”. In Elena Gokhman’s song cycle “Insomnia” analyzed from this position, a whole range of points of contact between the artistic worlds of the poet and the composer opens up to the poems of Marina Tsvetaeva. The analysis of the musical-poetic text at the pre-musical and musical levels of its organization, in the unity of syntagmatic and paradigmatic structures, which unfold, on the one hand, as a psychological “drama of the gap”, on the other - as a metaphorical discourse in the space of the title image of the cycle, allowed us to reveal in Elena Gokhman’s “Insomnia” a hidden intertextual plan, also dating back to the work of Marina Tsvetaeva, revealing the closest contact between the creative natures of the poet and the composer. At the same time, spiritual “affinity” as it is considered reveals “flaws” of incompatibility of creative consciousnesses, which, in accordance with the etymology of the Old Slavic “co-kinship”, allows us to see the dialogue between the poet and the composer in the dynamics of rapprochements and divergences - not only moments of striking spiritual unity of artists belonging to different cultural eras,but also differences that determine the exclusive spiritual appearance of the work born in dialogue with the poet.