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Филмска музика Јосипа Славенског
Film Music of Josip Slavenski

Author(s): Marija Ćirić
Subject(s): Music, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Izdavačko preduzeće CLIO
Keywords: Josip Slavenski; film music; partiture; movie; cinematography

Summary/Abstract: The paper about Josip Slavenski’s film music indicates on key questions which are important for this part of his opus, that are: the way of conception of partiture, the position of music in movies, and contest in which this movie compositions are made. Josip Slavenski worked on three movies: Das Lied der schwarzen Berge (1932), A zivot jde dál (1936), and The first lights (1948); so it could be say that movie music is not main part of his opus. On the other hand, the fact is that Slavenski participated in creation of new artistic genre on territory of our former country (because film partiture of Josip Slavenski in period between two World Wars belongs to the first examples of its sort in wider/coproduction frame of Yugoslav movies), it obliges us to consider the Slavenski’s contribution to the seventh art. The music from these movies represents the reflection of his creation. At first, the fascination of folklore is expressed, and that folklore with researching of acoustic phenomena represents the one of constant in his work. The folk tradition was set up as a basic for Slavenski’s film music – the thematic of all three movies was related with country which determined the composer’s ethnic identity as a (yugo) Slavic identity. The changes of position of national cinematography are interesting, which becomes from modest cultural importance in the time of Kingdom of Yugoslavia, to the end of WW II when movie become one of the most important product of promotion in new social system – when Josip Slavenski was a indirect witness.

  • Issue Year: 23/2017
  • Issue No: 46
  • Page Range: 10-17
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Serbian