Category "national" in the musical setting of the film "Flowers of War" by Zhang Yimou
The work focuses on manifestations of the category "national" in the film "Flowers of War" by Zhang Yimou. The subject of the study is the work of the composer Chen Qigang with national musical material in the analyzed film. Methodological basis: complex, systematic approaches; historical-stylistic, cultural approaches; methods of hermeneutics and semantic analysis. The novelty of the study lies in the definition of "national style" in the form of various forms of preservation, representation and transmission of the cultural values of the people in the music for the film "Flowers of War". It is substantiated that the fusion of the religious forms of Western culture - the Catholic chant and Chinese folk tunes, which have historical significance, give the musical design of the film a tremendous power of generalization. As a result of the study, the assignment of specific musical-thematic complexes to individual scenes of the film "Flowers of War" by Zhang Yimou is substantiated. At the same time, the film does not contain the opposition of “one's own - someone else's”. The musical-thematic complexes of the Catholic chant and folk Chinese melodies complement each other. It is concluded that the uniqueness of the musical arrangement of the film "Flowers of War" is created in the skillful stringing and enrichment of the meanings of these musical symbols with the visual content and meanings of Chinese traditional musical culture. It is concluded that such a universal cultural mutual enrichment brings the category of "national" to the level of "world" - a symbol of universal values - civic and moral duty, humanism, being a full-fledged representative of the traditions and cultural and historical values of the Chinese people.