MUSIC CODE OF FANTASY BY ALLA ROHASHKO
MUSIC CODE OF FANTASY BY ALLA ROHASHKO

Summary/Abstract: In this article the role of the musical code in the fantasy modeling of A. Rohashko’s novels “Autumn Rondo of the Moonlight Night” and “Her Dress” is determined for the first time. It is defined the system of structural elements of the musical genre of rondo in the text of “Autumn Rondo of the Moonlight Night”, as well as the originality of recurring fragments in the text of “Her Dress”, which imitate the musical-ritual rhythm described in the novel. The mythopoetics of analysed novels is the mosaic-type, it differs from the mythopoetic organization of most Ukrainian fantasy novels of the first decades of the XXI century, which is based on a linear-mosaic model. A feature of A. Rohashko’s style is the formation in her works by variable repetition of elements of the text of the situationally mythological mosaic, which functions within this text and is the author’s myth in its internal system. Interpretation of the musical component of A. Rohashko’s novels allows to fully comprehend the mythopoetic subtext of her works. Music structurally encodes these novels. This coding of the work is significantly different from cases where the text simply contains descriptions of performance of a piece of music.

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