Lyrical images. Lyrical images in music

The center of any lyrical work becomes a person. If there are no people in the song or story, then each object is described through the prism of the author's feelings or a fictional hero.

Lyrical image

In an artistic, musical work there is a character, which the author describes, giving him some characteristic features. In the lyrics - a kind of works based on the emotional disclosure of the narrator himself and his character - it completely bares the soul and heart.

The reader or listener can identify all the feelings that lyrical images contain. Only an attentive audience will read the author's message through his work.

What is the lyrics?

This is the kind of works of art that came from ancient Greece. It was named after a stringed instrument - lyre. During such concerts the ancient artists passed their sensitive side with the help of music. The most common misconception was that the lyrics are based on melancholy motives. It is not true. It can focus on one emotion, but most often reflects the whole spectrum: grief, joy, sadness, fun. Whatever feelings a person feels, if they are brought to the fore in art, it becomes lyrical.

The main types of works - poetry, music, a message. The most ancient lyrical texts are the "Song of Songs", written by the legendary King Solomon, and the Psalms of David. The first work is a poem, the second - refers to religious lyrics.

This type of creation can be just a segment or a retreat in a large work, during which the protagonist experiences a number of feelings and shares them with the public.

What makes the lyrics unique?

The main feature of this kind of works is that, in addition to feelings and personal sensations from some phenomena, the author does not describe anything. It's like an individual confession sounds from the stage. There is no development of active events.

Main features:

• Inaction,
• feelings and emotions,
• mood.

Ancient times

The lyrics began their development in ancient Greece. Vivid representatives of this style at the time were considered Stesichor and Alkman, who glorified the heroes and the state. The lyric reached its greatest dawn in the first century, during the period of Virgil's activity, the author of the Aeneid, and Ovid with his Metamorphoses. The authors chose love for the main themes of moral experience. She had a variety of dramatic images: a love for her father (like Aeneas), love for the motherland, for close people.

The Middle Ages and the Renaissance

In the Middle Ages, the main lyricists were troubadours. They traveled through different villages, sang, read poetry, played flutes. Through their creativity the troubadours combined different types of lyrics into one. They even gave dramatized performances.

The Renaissance brought the flowering of love lyrics into world art. Of the poets, the most famous were Dante, Petrarch, Lorenzo de 'Medici. At the same time, musical ballads appeared. A clear representative of the genre was Karl of Orleans.

The lyrics were not only love in the specified period. At Ulrich von Hutten she wore a whole polemical character. Lyrical images, examples of which were taken from philosophers and musicians of the classical era, had to be made more modern, less emotional. But nevertheless the unhappy love of the hero Petrarch to his charming Laura dominated all subsequent works. His poems were taken as a basis.

In England, the lyrics did not develop very much. The people have a song about Robin Hood in the style of a lyrical ballad. William Shakespeare, as the discoverer of this literary family in his country, brought to the forefront the dramatic images of the sufferer and martyr Hamlet, harboring the truth of Macbeth and other heroes.

Near past

The nineteenth century is full of names of lyricists: Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Keats, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Victor Marie Hugo, Alfred de Musset ...

In Russia, the famous poets working in this style were Alexander Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Mikhail Lermontov, Kondraty Ryleev, Pyotr Vyazemsky, Vladimir Odoyevsky.

Description of the hero in the lyrics

In a work of this kind, not necessarily the main character will be a person. The lyrical hero is a man, a woman, a child, an old man, a nature, a heavenly body, a time of the year. Only the author can choose the object that endows with emotions. The creator of the work tries to put his own thoughts into the mouth of his lyrical images. He does not transfer himself completely to the hero, but endows those feelings that he experiences.

Even if the author did not intend to take his personal experiences to the show, he can not avoid it. The main lyrical image will be a reflection of the world outlook, the perception of a musician or writer. The main character shows all those features that are characteristic of a person of the present time, his social class. In this image, each for himself can endure a lesson concealed by the author within the work.

Lyrical images in music

The lyrics are transmitted through music. She is closest to her. Music without words can express all feelings that are not so difficult for an attentive person to understand. Lyrical images in a melody can be transmitted with a tool or vocals.

Among the instrumental lyrical works stand out the classical works of Mozart, Schubert, Debussy, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and other famous composers. With the help of melodies they formed lyrical images. A vivid example is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The composer focuses on the whole people, the whole ethnos is lyrically acting. In music, attempts are made to reconcile warring people.

Beethoven throughout his life tried to bring positive features to all his images. He said: "That which comes from the heart must lead to it." Many researchers take this statement for service in forming the definition of the lyrical image as a whole. In the "Spring Sonata" the melody tells about nature, about the awakening of the world after the winter sleep. Lyrical images in the music of the composer were embodied in abstract concepts - spring, joy, freedom.

In Tchaikovsky's cycle "The Seasons" nature also becomes the main one. In Debussy, the lyrical image is focused on the Moon in the composition "Tenderness". Every maestro found inspiration in nature, man, in some moment. All this later became the main theme in music.

Among the most famous romances with lyrical images can be called:

• "The Beautiful Miller", "The Winter Road" by Schubert,
• "To the distant beloved" Beethoven,
• "Romance about the romance" - the words of Ahmadulina, the music of Petrova,
• "I loved you" - Pushkin's words, Sheremetyev's music,
• "Thin Rowan" by I. Surikov.

Lyrical images in the literature

Most of all, this literary genre manifested itself in poetry. It is in her most often reveal the lyrical images of characters by describing their worries. Poets brought their own "I" into the works. The hero became the double of the author of the lines. There was a description of the fate of man, his inner world, as well as some characteristic features, habits. This - especially - poetry was forever immortalized by Byron, Lermontov, Heine, Petrarch, Pushkin.

These great geniuses behind the scenes invented the basic rules in the chosen genre, for which lyrical images were formed. Works became softer, individual, intimate. Literators call these poets romantics, which once again emphasizes the subtle connection with style. Nevertheless, the lyric poem may not have its own "I". So, Blok's poems can serve as an example, where the author does not transfer himself to the work. The same goes for Fet.

Pushkin in the poems "The cart of life", "Toward Chaadayev" did not focus on "I", but on "we" - in them he acts on a par with his characters.

In Russian literature, a hero can even be an antipode for his spiritual worldview to a poet. Vivid examples of this stylistic trend are images in Russian literature in works:

• "Borodino" Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov,
• "The Black Shawl", "I'm Here, Inezilia ...", "The Page, or the Fifteenth Year", "Imitations of the Koran" by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin,
• "Philanthropist", "Moral Man", "Ogorodnik" Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov.

This is not a complete list of works. Lyrical images in them became familiar for Russian literature.

In Sergei Yesenin's poems such a surge of emotion was shifted to the horse. And Marina Tsvetaeva has heroes in the form of birds. Poets endowed the characters with their own feelings, combining into one image.

Many researchers of the lyric hero in Russia, including Gudkovsky, Ginzbursh, Rodnyanskaya, believe that the audience complements it with its perception. Everyone can imagine the feelings that the hero of a work experiences, in its own way. He is guided by those emotions that were caused by music or a poem, a ballad or a theatrical performance. Eternal images in literature confirm this theory. The author of the lyrical image tries to convey his vision, relying on the fact that the public will understand it.